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    Cool 1951 Barn Find

    Hi Guys,

    New to AULRO, have a 1962 IIA 88 and was stumbling round an old friend of a friends barn in the bush as someone had tipped me off they might have had some parts that could be useful for me.
    Nothing for the IIA but found what I believe to be a 1951 Series 1 80" RHD export. Car No: 16160781. Refer pics.

    Would appreciate if any of the AULRO masters of history/research on the 80"s could shed any more light for me?

    Rest assured i am certainly doing my best to give this old girl a new home!

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    very good you will ave no trouble with that a good investment jim
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    I think 1616 refers to PTO where as 1666 refers to standard. I am more than happy to be corrected.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rmkpro View Post
    Hi Guys,

    New to AULRO, have a 1962 IIA 88 and was stumbling round an old friend of a friends barn in the bush as someone had tipped me off they might have had some parts that could be useful for me.
    Nothing for the IIA but found what I believe to be a 1951 Series 1 80" RHD export. Car No: 16160781. Refer pics.

    Would appreciate if any of the AULRO masters of history/research on the 80"s could shed any more light for me?

    Rest assured i am certainly doing my best to give this old girl a new home!

    IMG_8206 copy.jpgIMG_8207 copy.jpgIMG_8209 copy.jpgIMG_8218 copy.jpg
    You might have something there mate. We have a guru or two here. If JDNSW doesn't chime in PM him. He seems to have LR chassis numbers at his fingertips.

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    Not Series 1 sadly - my references are less complete for them. But I can confirm that 161 is the 1951 base model and 166 would be the CKD model. The next 6 probably means standard and would be 1 for PTO - or vice versa.

    Note that this is for the model year starting in October 1950. There were 13,359 of these built (161, that is) so 781 was probably actually built in 1950.

    Information from Taylor "The Landrover Story Part 1 1948-1971".
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    Thanks for the info. Did Grenville motors sell both CKD and RHD export versions? We’re there other dealers in aus it solely distributed by Grenville? Where does the pressed metal corp fit into the timeline of early series models for the CKD units?

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    Initially (and this would apply to this vehicle) there were separate importers/distributors in each state. In addition, even right from the start there were private imports, and it is likely that there were even some dealers that managed to bypass the distributor.

    I am not sure when CKD shipments started to Australia, but they may not have started this early. And all state distributors (including Grenville Motors), that did assemble CKD vehicles also imported fully built vehicles, either variants that were not available as CKD or that they did not have the facilities to assemble, or emergency top-up orders (a fully built vehicle can be delivered to a customer within days of landing, a CKD kit will probably take weeks).

    You have to remember that in the early fifties, the world was still in the early stages of recovery from WW2, and especially in Australia, there was a severe shortage of motor vehicles, both as a result of very few being sold from about 1929-1945 (Depression and war), and a post war baby boom, mass immigration, demobbed military, and a booming economy based on record wool prices, and the end of the austerity government in 1949. As a result, the supply of motor vehicles, including Landrovers, used every possible route, stretching the rules as often as not, and record keeping was often not a top priority.
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