strengthening ribs - underside of bonnet

[newby@54]

I'm looking for advice on the correct colour of the strengthening ribs on the underside of the bonnet of my SIIA.


In his specification guide on Series II and IIAs, James Taylor categorically says that the strengthening ribs were always painted black. On Betty, my 1962 IIA, the ribs are painted deep bronze green and I've noticed on several restorations shown on this forum the ribs are also deep bronze green.


But I've also seen a couple of restorations where they painted black. So can anyone give me definitive advice please.


Thanks in advance


Nic

[chazza]

I suspect that it depends on where the car was assembled - all of my Rovers were assembled in Australia and the colour of the ribs is the same as the body colour,

Cheers Charlie

[newby@54]

Thanks for your response Charlie


So it seems that there are differences between English built Land Rovers and Australian built Land Rovers. Mine is a Granville built IIA so the James Taylor IIA specification book I mentioned may not be correct in every case for Australian CKD vehicles.


Has anyone documented the differences between English built and Australian built vehicles?


Cheers


Nic

[JDNSW]

Thanks for your response Charlie


So it seems that there are differences between English built Land Rovers and Australian built Land Rovers. Mine is a Granville built IIA so the James Taylor IIA specification book I mentioned may not be correct in every case for Australian CKD vehicles.


Has anyone documented the differences between English built and Australian built vehicles?


Cheers


Nic

As far as I know, nobody has even attempted to document the differences. While the English details are fairly well documented, the Australian ones are not. By the end of 2a production in Australia, there was a very substantial proportion of the vehicle assembled from locally made parts. Not only will these be potentially slightly different from the English version, but thee seems to have been a strong tendency to make changes later than changes in the home market ones, presumably to use up stocks of parts. In some cases changes were never made, as local parts makers did not supply the changed part.

Of course, there are also enough fully imported ones to make everything confusing!

John

[newby@54]

Thanks John. Now I know why I'm confused. I read Classic Land Rover magazine and have several books written by James Taylor and these focus on English built vehicles.

Cheers

Nic