Yes, by the 70s, more colours were available.
John
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Yes, by the 70s, more colours were available.
John
Sorry Gus... there are like 70 000 people in Mackay :P I know about 10...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gustav
I can't say that I've heard of any daves that play with LR.
You need to be cognoscente that the LR Parts Catalogues were published in the UK and often related to the standard specification of UK assembled vehicles. AFAIK the standard bonnets were manufactured in Australia where the deluxe bonnet were not, so you find that Australian manufactured SIIa and SIII vehicles got the standard bonnet while the contemporary UK built ones got the Deluxe. Some exceptions were the station wagons, where the body panels still came from the U.K and most had the Deluxe bonnet, if the spare was mounted on the bonnet the 109 wagons had the recessed Deluxe bonnet. Similarly the UK vehicles had the woven wire mesh grill, while the Au civvy ones had the welded wire grill.Quote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
The yellow sandstone colour was the standard colour of Au assembled six cylinders, at the same time diesel and 4 cyl petrol 109" had the grey colour (apart from the various government contract vehicles. e.g. PMG (pre Telecom Aust) blood red, DCA, daffodil yellow, NSW Forestry and DMR had orange etc etc.)
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Originally Posted by debruiser
Ha fair enough! Worth a shot.
Thanks Diana - I had guessed most of that, but very nice to have your confirmation. Reinforces what I said about colour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
Interestingly, the one S3 I have had here (1981 109) had a deluxe bonnet, without the recess and with a spare mount (I'm guessing fitted by the dealer).
Also of interest, my first 2a (1961 109 diesel trayback I bought in 1965 in Alice) was white, but this was certainly a respray over grey, probably by the SA distributor or the AS dealer before its initial sale.
John
John
haha, yea no worries ay. Wish I knew more LR ppl hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Gustav
Gus - as requested a few more photos.
Incidentally, one of the photos shows the 1967 date stamp on the original lucas generator. You may find other components similarly stamped which may help determining what is original.
The photo of the dash shows a non genuine attempt at a windscreen washer.
The paint has been redone but is the original colour.
Rgds
alan
Thanks Alan, very good of you.Quote:
Originally Posted by alanw
Mine is virtually the same set up on the dash which is good.
I'll check for dates on other items as you suggest.
Regards,
Gus
What a nice looking SIIA. I love it, very nice. Mmmmmmm :BigThumb:
Can I ask you one small favour/task? Can you measure the distance from the back edge of the lip under the instrument panel (the one underneath away from the seats) to the face of the firewall? The space where the six cylinder heater/demister fits.It seems that a lot of the later SIII 109s had the deluxe bonnets, even Oz assembled ones but the Army kept the Standard even in 1981.Quote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
The 88" with the Deluxe bonnet had no recess, because standard equipment were 6.00 X 16 tyres the 109's should have had the recess because the 7.50 X 16 tyres obstruct too much forward vision. Interestingly the standard bonnet sits the tyres at about the same height as the Deluxe with recess.
Hello from Brisbane.
One of the earlier posts related to the aluminium tray and suggested that it might have replaced a steel and wood tray at some time. That might be correct in this instance, but at one stage in the late 60s or early 70s Land Rover Australia offered both.
I remember ads in The Land newspaper around that time highlighting the advantage of the optional alloy trays over the more common steel and timber tray. It went along the lines that the alloy tray being 30 to 35% lighter meant the prospective payload was equivalently higher for the same model. Whatever the merits of the argument my late Dad still bought a six with the steel and wooden tray.
Cheers,
Neil