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4 landies:
 Just bought a series 3 lightwight.

 On the log book it claims vehicle was registered in 1981 and colour is red.

 is this the year of manufacture and is the colour right to when  it left the military or is it possible that it was never owned by the military?

 Any info would be great.

Range Rover Blues:
More likely it's demob date, you might be able to get an age related plate on it if you can trace it's history.

Red, hmmmm.  most likley it was repainted to the customer's spec by the company who demobbed it rather than it leaving the forces in that colour, unless it was a fire tender or similar.

4 landies:
 Not got logbook at present so will have to wait before tracing history but  cheers for the info

ben_haynes:
not all were Military

my dad had one, that was red, and it was a Exmil

S188:
Whats the chassis number, that should give you the year (well, some do in an understandarble way).  If its an 80's model it'll probubly have a 17 digit VIN number beginning SAL - one of those numbers/letters will be the model year (can't remember which, its the same position for any modern car but they need decodeing anyway).  If you want to be more spacific or its not got the modern style VIN (the old chassis numbers after 1961 didn't have a model year in them) then ring up Gaydon. Someone in the archive will be able to tell you the day your chassis number was built over the phone, or in a letter that the DVLA will recognise as proof of age - handy if you need an age related plate.  Phoneing is free, letters are cheep.  If you want one of their fancy Certificates they cost more but you won't get any more info from that.  They only recorded basic stuff like build number, chassis number, dates in and out of despatch (date in = date of manufacture), colour and despatch location.  Stuff like engine and body type only come from the chassis number.

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