1. A circlip can't be tight if its a liquid. 2. Thanks for taking the time to show us a practical restoration. You're obviously taking the time to make it look nice, but its not like you're trying to make a showroom vehicle. I'm sure you intend to use it, and with intent to make it last for a long time. These types of builds are refreshing, and enjoyed.
Thanks for yet another really absorbing video, Max. Back in the 1970s when I was a kid, Sand Glow was a staple colour of British Leyland cars - not to be confused with Harvest Gold, which was very similar. I remember at one time, my parents owned a Sand Glow Mini and a Sand Glow Marina, which really put me off the colour. But wouldn't you know, the very first car I bought - a Triumph Dolomite - was painted in Sand Glow too. Fate clearly had it in for me. Clearly fashion goes full circle, so I suppose it's good to see Sand Glow having another day in the sun. I will try and not let my prejudices cloud my ongoing enjoyment of this really interesting project! Great to see it turning from a pile of parts in a bramble patch to a rolling vehicle once more.
Little tip mate for you when your spraying outside in winter,get your paint warmed up in front of the heater then you don't need to thin it down hardly at all and it helps it dry quicker and stops it running too fella!!!
Kermit will be the colour of Fozzie! It's going to look great! Camel trophy bull bars and roof rack? Maybe even a vanity snorkel? It's really taking shape now and I'm looking forward to the next one.
We had two second hand 1100 Mini Clubman estates in the 1970s and 80s. Both in Sandglow. The first was S reg and had the woody tin chrome edged stripe. The latter, T reg, had a metallic brown vinyl stripe and tinted windows; quite a handsome little runabout. I learned to drive in that car and passed my test in it in 1972, when I was 17. It was my mum's car, but I drove myself to and from school in it for a year and then used it when I was in College for a couple of years on and off. Just before we sold the last one in around 1989, dad had repaired all rear door bottom corners with hand beaten copper sheet replacements. He made these from sheet copper cut from old immersion cylinders; he was a plumber. These he soldered in and sprayed up himself. It really did look good when it sold. I do wonder about copper and steel and what kind of galvanic cell you'd get with it and how long those corners would have lasted, but hey.
Beside me liking the colour it's your car so you are the only one who really should like it. Also it's totally understandable why people actually don't want to ride military green vehicles anymore. So thumbs up for your decision.
great colour choice! camel trophy landrovers are just amazing. its weird why some cars can just suit a colour - a land rover (series, 90/110, defender, RRC) of that era all can carry off sandglow......sorry british leyland beige 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻i get enjoyment out of watching the progress and how you overcome the hurdles that folk working in a shed/garage or on a driveway have to overcome, you gotta do what you gotta do. nice work.
Nice work Max believe it or not I was gonna guess brown as the color of Kermit. I never would of guessed beige, I think it will look good once it's all painted up and finished. Maybe a chocolate brown roof would set the look off 🤔 The best part about the colour you've chosen though is it will always look great clean or covered in mud 👍
Happiness is. A busy, creative and experienced engineer doesn`t need a life or a wife 😏. They always need a project. I`d travel to see the end result of this great build.
You know, that when you have rebuilt the landie, it should be good enough to do some real over landing, such as desert driving in the Sahara. That would be fantastic to do. I myself have been to the Sahara a couple of times, it is a wonderful place to traverse, so peaceful and challenging.
Lovely color choice👍. When i was much younger, our Public Works Department uses a sandglow-ish and black color scheme. It always struck me as giving off that honest, working man vibe. Wonderful!
This colour is probably closest to Camino Gold, a very contentious colour here in Australia. It's one that Landy owners seem to either love or hate. I think it's a cracker! Good luck battling the elements as you paint and as always a great inspiration for the viewers. I'm off to get more solder, I've got a radiator to reassemble so it can go back in my 2A. Cheers!
Great to see Kermit get shafted. I served my apprenticeship at Longbridge in the 70s and I heard Sandglow described as "Babby Cack Yeller". Ooh 'ark at me with all the smutty comments. Lol. I was impressed that you were able to spray at such low temperatures. I do not have a heated garage and use that as an excuse not to do any bodywork. Maybe I should rethink. Thanks for another very interesting and entertaining Kermit build episode, Max. All the best, Mart in Solihull.
Great colour choice. It's going to look amazing. You could have had a look at the Land Rover Santana colour palette. Santanas were Solihull kits assembled in Spain for the Spanish market but also exported to markets such as Iran, Colombia, North Africa (Spanish Sahara). The santana colours are more muted than their solihull counterparts with pastel beiges, greys and desert sand tones (given the more arid and hot destimations), and would also have made for a very period original colour scheme. Keep up the great work!
Looks great so far! I'd definitely underseal the bottom of the fuel tank to prevent stones flicking up and putting holes in it when driving. Unless you want a trail of fuel behind you and a very low mpg!!!
A very interesting video with lots of topics. Great bulkhead should outlive us all. I don't know if you have considered, when the vehicle is completed, putting together a compilation "Kermit rebuild" DVD which you could then sell on your channel? I'm sure there would be quite a few buyers around the world. The UJ circlips I know, can be a real pain to get out on old prop shafts. I once had to resort to using an arc welder to attach to the circlip to pull it out. Now when they are assembled now I always put grease over the circlip so they have a chance of coming out again. I dont seem to have that problem with Land rovers. The car I did have a problem with was a mid engine Lotus, which had a transaxle so the joints were always under suspension tension and didn't have long life, so that Lotus I had them changed almost every year. The grease in the circlip cup really helped. Nice colour for the car and your next safari.
She’s coming along nicely. I really like the colour and if that’s what you want then bugger what anyone else thinks. Can’t wait for the next instalment 👍🏼
British Leyland beige is the tank colour of the Chinese army for their upcoming 2028 invasion of Australia! I do like your thinking on this, shows the person you are. Bravo 👏 gonna look brilliant
I think your color choice is brilliant. When you were talking about your thought process on color selection, I was thinking a butter yellow would be really nice but I think I prefer the yellow-beige even more.
Actually Yellow/Black would be dope as well. Like these utilitarian looks. But this sand color is nice as well, especially when combined with satin black. Sand color also allows you to buy a lot of vintage Camel bags I guess. :)
I have found that using a specific galvanised steel primer gives best results (adheres better), and a special primer and top coat for aluminium is definitely needed - as aluminium expands and contract so much that most paints can't cope with that much movement.
Lovely colour! Amongst the traveller community, many of us have inherited a superstitious aversion to painting our trucks green from the traditional circus, where green was believed to be unlucky. I know of some circus fundamentalists who won't even say the word, and instead call it "country blue"!
Dear Maximus I. 👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! What a great colour choice. It almost glows a little bit like orange in the sun. Additionally the chickens seem to like it too. 😁 ;-) 2) Please kindly allow me to suggest something: Usually professionals fit on all the body panels/parts before painting them. Please consider to do the same. 3) Maybe the rubber seals can be saved respectively even kind of rejuvenated. Putting them in common fabric softener (used in washing machines) sbd let them soak for some days, usually helps a lot. The rubber has to be cleaned before of course. There are is also a chemical product that works really great but fabric softener mostly does the trick too. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.
I've been trying to paint my 7.5t truck based motorhome over the winter, been a bloody nightmare with the cold, got it half done in Nov but its been far too cold ever since, took some bits inside the workshop and put the heater on to paint them but I need to be back on the road in March so it's just a waiting game, I feel your pain. It will all be worth it when you cruising down the road in your new toy.
Fantastic work. I am a bit behind you on my restoration - I’ve a 1960 109 with what I hope will turn out to be a good 200tdi to go in it. My plan is to go AA Yellow...
I used Jeeps for snow plowing and would go through u-joints. I found this guy on RUclips, if you look up The Thor method for removing U-joints it saved me a lot of aggravation and it's just very cool.
Great progress and I love the colour choice. I've seen a few grainy pictures of the 1983 Camel in Zaire where they used SWB SIII station wagons and they look very cool in Sandglow.
I think the beige and black will look spot on.
I absolutely concur with your colour choice - this looks joyful.
So much going on! Great progress.
1. A circlip can't be tight if its a liquid.
2. Thanks for taking the time to show us a practical restoration. You're obviously taking the time to make it look nice, but its not like you're trying to make a showroom vehicle. I'm sure you intend to use it, and with intent to make it last for a long time. These types of builds are refreshing, and enjoyed.
"Sand glow sounds a bit poncy" made me spit me coffee out! 🤣
Love the attention to detail and the outstanding work you put in! This is going to be a very nice land rover when it’s finished
Superb colour choice. I've many happy memories of drooling over Camel Trophy vehicles when I was growing up!
Any circlip that doesn't go spi-joing across the room counts as a victory to me.
In some trade circles they're known as 'pingfekits' 😉
Sandglow/beige is a great color, good to see Kermit moving forward.
Awesome, and you've picked the best colour! As you've pointed out, assemble tub forwards for correct alignment. Can't wait to see the next episode.
Thanks for yet another really absorbing video, Max. Back in the 1970s when I was a kid, Sand Glow was a staple colour of British Leyland cars - not to be confused with Harvest Gold, which was very similar. I remember at one time, my parents owned a Sand Glow Mini and a Sand Glow Marina, which really put me off the colour. But wouldn't you know, the very first car I bought - a Triumph Dolomite - was painted in Sand Glow too. Fate clearly had it in for me. Clearly fashion goes full circle, so I suppose it's good to see Sand Glow having another day in the sun. I will try and not let my prejudices cloud my ongoing enjoyment of this really interesting project! Great to see it turning from a pile of parts in a bramble patch to a rolling vehicle once more.
My mum had a sand glow AllAggro!
Greetings from Canada. Appreciate your thinking as to final colour! Hard to believe you got away with painting in a tent in winter. Not here!
Great colour choice, Max. Loving the build!
Little tip mate for you when your spraying outside in winter,get your paint warmed up in front of the heater then you don't need to thin it down hardly at all and it helps it dry quicker and stops it running too fella!!!
Enjoying the build Max. Thank you for posing.
Kermit will be the colour of Fozzie! It's going to look great! Camel trophy bull bars and roof rack? Maybe even a vanity snorkel? It's really taking shape now and I'm looking forward to the next one.
That's a belter of a Landy that you are building!
Kermit is looking close to the colour of my old mini, coming along very nicely
I do enjoy the contribution made by the chickens. There seems to be less of them these days.
Max, Kermit is now an North American Toad but still a cousin of Kermit.😁 Love you videos .... Keep on doing what you love brother.
I think you picked a winner with the color. Add the black accents on top of that and it is going to look sharp!
We had two second hand 1100 Mini Clubman estates in the 1970s and 80s. Both in Sandglow.
The first was S reg and had the woody tin chrome edged stripe. The latter, T reg, had a metallic brown vinyl stripe and tinted windows; quite a handsome little runabout. I learned to drive in that car and passed my test in it in 1972, when I was 17. It was my mum's car, but I drove myself to and from school in it for a year and then used it when I was in College for a couple of years on and off.
Just before we sold the last one in around 1989, dad had repaired all rear door bottom corners with hand beaten copper sheet replacements. He made these from sheet copper cut from old immersion cylinders; he was a plumber. These he soldered in and sprayed up himself. It really did look good when it sold.
I do wonder about copper and steel and what kind of galvanic cell you'd get with it and how long those corners would have lasted, but hey.
Fair play to your dad, that's an impressive repair effort!
Beside me liking the colour it's your car so you are the only one who really should like it. Also it's totally understandable why people actually don't want to ride military green vehicles anymore.
So thumbs up for your decision.
Coming together nicely. Always look for the lovely supervisory hens. Thank you for posting.
It's coming together more quickly now. Another useful tool. Just in time for seed planting and letting the spray tunnel do it's original job.
BIrdy
You'll certainly be able to find it in a car park Max.
One thumbs up just isn't enough!
Excellent progress in really challenging weather conditions. Thanks once again.
great colour choice! camel trophy landrovers are just amazing. its weird why some cars can just suit a colour - a land rover (series, 90/110, defender, RRC) of that era all can carry off sandglow......sorry british leyland beige 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻i get enjoyment out of watching the progress and how you overcome the hurdles that folk working in a shed/garage or on a driveway have to overcome, you gotta do what you gotta do. nice work.
Really loving the colour! think the wheels should be the same as the body!
Perfect colour and hopefully some Camel Trophy decals on the doors :)
Colour choice is perfect
Loving the beige - beats green any day 😁
Colour is fine, its much easier to be seen when driving in country areas.
Nice work Max believe it or not I was gonna guess brown as the color of Kermit. I never would of guessed beige, I think it will look good once it's all painted up and finished. Maybe a chocolate brown roof would set the look off 🤔 The best part about the colour you've chosen though is it will always look great clean or covered in mud 👍
Using a tool correctly makes you a craftsman. Creating a tool to solve a problem makes you an engineer.
Good effort Max.
And using a bigger hammer, makes you one of us.
Nice to see somebody try a different colour on a Land Rover Series
my first car was a renovated old blue mini and I finished it in....guess....yes Sandglow and shiny black roof....nice to see you back in action Max.
Happiness is.
A busy, creative and experienced engineer doesn`t need a life or a wife 😏.
They always need a project.
I`d travel to see the end result of this great build.
Looking good.... inspiration for.my Series 2A nut and bolt restoration project
Bring back beige! Great colour choice I reckon.
When you said Sunglow/beige I had my doubts but in the sunshine it looks good! Onwards!
I love (and whole-heartedly agree with) your entire reasoning for the colour choice. 👍👍👍
We call it black and tan in Australia. Popular colour for 40 and 60 series Landcruisers :)
Glad you are using a happy paint colour, the whole idea of Project Kermit is to bring joy and happiness, the colour will definitely help❤️
Nice choice of colour, you don’t see that colour much out on the road so will look unique! 👍
You know, that when you have rebuilt the landie, it should be good enough to do some real over landing, such as desert driving in the Sahara. That would be fantastic to do.
I myself have been to the Sahara a couple of times, it is a wonderful place to traverse, so peaceful and challenging.
Lovely color choice👍. When i was much younger, our Public Works Department uses a sandglow-ish and black color scheme. It always struck me as giving off that honest, working man vibe. Wonderful!
Actually laughed out loud to myself when you revealed that 'sand glow' is really just 'British Leyland beige'. Brilliant!
Thumbs up to choice of colour !
This colour is probably closest to Camino Gold, a very contentious colour here in Australia. It's one that Landy owners seem to either love or hate. I think it's a cracker! Good luck battling the elements as you paint and as always a great inspiration for the viewers. I'm off to get more solder, I've got a radiator to reassemble so it can go back in my 2A. Cheers!
Very apt colour, Austin Maxi came in this colour.
Top job as always. The beige is also just right for an Austin Maxi Dakar edition. Cheers Max.
Love the colour, was going to do a discovery in that colour...... Then went "sod it!!" and roller painted it olive drab 😂😂
Great to see Kermit get shafted. I served my apprenticeship at Longbridge in the 70s and I heard Sandglow described as "Babby Cack Yeller". Ooh 'ark at me with all the smutty comments. Lol. I was impressed that you were able to spray at such low temperatures. I do not have a heated garage and use that as an excuse not to do any bodywork. Maybe I should rethink. Thanks for another very interesting and entertaining Kermit build episode, Max. All the best, Mart in Solihull.
Soon as you are off grid for heating, try the cheap paraffin greenhouse heaters, I use them to work on fibreglass in the winter . Twenty quid a pop 👌
Great colour choice. It's going to look amazing. You could have had a look at the Land Rover Santana colour palette. Santanas were Solihull kits assembled in Spain for the Spanish market but also exported to markets such as Iran, Colombia, North Africa (Spanish Sahara). The santana colours are more muted than their solihull counterparts with pastel beiges, greys and desert sand tones (given the more arid and hot destimations), and would also have made for a very period original colour scheme. Keep up the great work!
Colour is amazing in the sunlight.
Looks great so far! I'd definitely underseal the bottom of the fuel tank to prevent stones flicking up and putting holes in it when driving. Unless you want a trail of fuel behind you and a very low mpg!!!
You could put a square steering wheel and a vinyl roof on that’d be nice!
Excellent video Mr, colour choice is bold and totally you.
A very interesting video with lots of topics. Great bulkhead should outlive us all. I don't know if you have considered, when the vehicle is completed, putting together a compilation "Kermit rebuild" DVD which you could then sell on your channel? I'm sure there would be quite a few buyers around the world.
The UJ circlips I know, can be a real pain to get out on old prop shafts. I once had to resort to using an arc welder to attach to the circlip to pull it out. Now when they are assembled now I always put grease over the circlip so they have a chance of coming out again. I dont seem to have that problem with Land rovers. The car I did have a problem with was a mid engine Lotus, which had a transaxle so the joints were always under suspension tension and didn't have long life, so that Lotus I had them changed almost every year. The grease in the circlip cup really helped. Nice colour for the car and your next safari.
Sand glow yellow! Haven’t heard that name since I bumped my first mini!
That's a fab colour .... Welcome, Kermit the Custard !
That's looking great, onward through the fog.
Excellent colour. And for all the reasons you gave.
Great job Max, I like the colour.
aw yes. Just what I needed right now!
It might be worth putting a stonechip on the engine side of the footwells to help guard the metal in years to come.
Absolutely love your choice of color and understand and agree on why the choice of color.
She’s coming along nicely. I really like the colour and if that’s what you want then bugger what anyone else thinks. Can’t wait for the next instalment 👍🏼
British Leyland beige is the tank colour of the Chinese army for their upcoming 2028 invasion of Australia!
I do like your thinking on this, shows the person you are. Bravo 👏 gonna look brilliant
I think your color choice is brilliant. When you were talking about your thought process on color selection, I was thinking a butter yellow would be really nice but I think I prefer the yellow-beige even more.
I see a old camel landy all the time, it's faded to all hell but it still looks awesome rocking it's old liver sponsors and all like a boss
The sun going down on your house was a beautiful sight to see.
Ice Cold In Alex: 🍻 "I keep all my rubber bits in a box". 🤣 Great colour choice, but I love orange.
Actually Yellow/Black would be dope as well. Like these utilitarian looks.
But this sand color is nice as well, especially when combined with satin black.
Sand color also allows you to buy a lot of vintage Camel bags I guess. :)
BEIGGGGEEEE! The mightiest of colours and a fine choice
Excellent colour, coming along well.
Nice to see Kermit emerges! So much love, care!
I have found that using a specific galvanised steel primer gives best results (adheres better), and a special primer and top coat for aluminium is definitely needed - as aluminium expands and contract so much that most paints can't cope with that much movement.
BTW, if you want to make the tunnel much stronger, put cross-braces on some of the hoops. Stops it wiggling sideways.
Lovely colour! Amongst the traveller community, many of us have inherited a superstitious aversion to painting our trucks green from the traditional circus, where green was believed to be unlucky. I know of some circus fundamentalists who won't even say the word, and instead call it "country blue"!
Nice work Max, never easy working in the cold.
Amazing work Max loving this series and Kermit going to look Damn good can’t wait for the next video. Thanks as always Max made my day.😊
Kermit is now the colour of Fozzie Bear !!! Brilliant series cant wait to see the finished project.
Dear Maximus I.
👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! What a great colour choice. It almost glows a little bit like orange in the sun. Additionally the chickens seem to like it too. 😁 ;-) 2) Please kindly allow me to suggest something: Usually professionals fit on all the body panels/parts before painting them. Please consider to do the same. 3) Maybe the rubber seals can be saved respectively even kind of rejuvenated. Putting them in common fabric softener (used in washing machines) sbd let them soak for some days, usually helps a lot. The rubber has to be cleaned before of course. There are is also a chemical product that works really great but fabric softener mostly does the trick too.
Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.
Brilliant colour choice ! Really enjoying this restoration 👍
I've been trying to paint my 7.5t truck based motorhome over the winter, been a bloody nightmare with the cold, got it half done in Nov but its been far too cold ever since, took some bits inside the workshop and put the heater on to paint them but I need to be back on the road in March so it's just a waiting game, I feel your pain. It will all be worth it when you cruising down the road in your new toy.
I think you've picked the perfect colour. My recollection of a classic land rover is beige.
Can not wait to see this build progressing. You are going to end up with a priceless work of art there. Cheers.
Love the colour 😍
You could do with a CDH (chinese diesel heater)
the sandglow yellow will be a nice color Max . nice to see the project update 😊
Great choice of color! Camel Trophy is a great source of inspiration 👍👍
Fantastic work. I am a bit behind you on my restoration - I’ve a 1960 109 with what I hope will turn out to be a good 200tdi to go in it. My plan is to go AA Yellow...
I am really enjoying this! Looking forward to the next installment.
I used Jeeps for snow plowing and would go through u-joints. I found this guy on RUclips, if you look up The Thor method for removing U-joints it saved me a lot of aggravation and it's just very cool.
Sandglow is a great colour choice, my 1979 Marina was too, it will look great, keep it up!
Looking good. If you haven't got one , get yourself the special socket for fitting the prop nuts, they are cheap and save a load of faff!. Cheers. 🙂
That colour is cool. You've done loads of progress. It's getting there. Thanks for filming. It's coming warmer so it will be running in the spring👍👍
Great progress and I love the colour choice. I've seen a few grainy pictures of the 1983 Camel in Zaire where they used SWB SIII station wagons and they look very cool in Sandglow.