Farnell's customer service and advice was top notch - and as they are part of the Co-Op they told me to join and i got a £4,000 dividend at the end of the year!
I don't think the car had been used in anger as there was scarcely any dirt in the engine bay (I saw it the day it arrived from Solihull). It had done 2,400 miles.
It was definitely originally black - you can tell this from the engine bay - but overall it has a paint job of the quality you'd get on an Autobiography. It shows in the original log book a black Vogue SE. I was told by my local repair guy, who used to work at Land Rover, that the P38 paintshop was more flexible that the L322 one. Any Autobiogrphy in a non-standard colour (and I assume - but he didn't know - G4s) were sent off to an external paintshop as completed black cars. There must have been some serious disassembly going on. I guess this also explains why my 1998 P38 in AA yellow (bought when we lived in the US and still with me) has a thoroughly yellow bodyshell, even in the engine bay.
Mine was seized when i got it, quite an easy fix if the teeth are all still okay. Have a look here for info and pics on the winch, but i doubt the winch would be covered under any warranty really.
Ant
Thanks Ant.... I could not get to that section; however, I ended up removing the housing form the winch and let the ring gear sit in a anti-seize product called "PB Blaster" for a few hours. I drained the unit, flipped it over, placed a piece of wood on the top and hit it with a hammer a few times and the ring gear popped out. Wet sanded everything, reassmebled and used a lot of machine oil and all is good now.