Hi nammon,
Been slack on the s one front, been doing a few trips in the defender and have ignored my early 1955 over our winter..
Just a note on the chassis colour, mine had been resprayed green ,but while searching for the chassis number I took it right back to the toxic yellow primer and mine was originally green not black...
There's a few things on 1954/1955 models that are specific to those years ( engine bay wize) can't think of all of them off hand but a major one is the distributor( different points and different vac advance unit). You're electrical system looks totaly different ,but it is a military car so I'd look into that....
Cheers mark

