My gut reaction is to say, he's not a Vanilla Mojave.

I hatched one out in 2012, and she was WAYYYY yellower than this. Even at a year old, she was richly yellow in all her markings. I don't see that in this snake.

But then I have to remind myself I am probably biased, because I breed for the best look in all of my morphs, and my girl was probably just a stellar example of a Vanilla Mojave. This guy is certainly heavily blushed and faded to be "just a Mojave". And he does have a pretty faded out head for a Mojave too.

So he quite possibly is a Vanilla Mojave, just not as pretty as my girl was.

Gale