Hey land rover fans, this is Bernardo reporting from the small country of costa rica where i own a series II and land rovers are a common sight here, unfortunately, they, after thirty or so years, are still used for hauling cargo and as the workhorses they were created for; that means that finding land rovers in good condition is hard! My car is in relatively good state but i can't get past the paint job, it S----!!! i bought it about a year ago, the past owner painted the scratch marks with a brush!! and with another color!! so my car has a lot of orange reddish stains, and it supposedly is red, but honestly i wouldn't know and i want to paint it factory style, but i don't know how the factory red land rovers were, so if anyone can help me, i'd be very appreciative

I think factory red is called Masaii Red. My series 2 was this colour, a sort of hideous "Tandoori" colour, it's now black.
Anyway welcome to the forum chap.

Regards WP.

you don't want to paint it red.red ones don't get up hills.

ffs don't paint it red, i get stuck behind enough red ones as it is without painting another one red, try blue, thats a nice colour

Painting it red is the Landrover equivalent of wearing a Trilby.

They should all be green.

Ok ok...i see that my car's color aint exactly the best for land rovers, but changing it means i have to go through a world of trouble in the MOPT our similar to your MOT, and have a request for changing colors and everything, although i am leaning to painting it other color, either olive green, light brown, or a dark blue...but i have some time to decide, since there are other things ahead