Thread: Series 2A ID Request

Originally Posted by Gustav

The bloke I bought it from says he got it from a guy called Dave in Mackay who did all the work on it. Any idea who that might be mate?
Regards,
Gus

Sorry Gus... there are like 70 000 people in Mackay :P I know about 10...

I can't say that I've heard of any daves that play with LR.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Very nice looking. An interesting comment on it, as from your information it has the original equipment - according to my parts book, the deluxe bonnet (rounded front edge) was standard equipment on the 2a - but most of the Australian assembled 2as I have seen have standard bonnets!

John

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.

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.)

Originally Posted by debruiser

Sorry Gus... there are like 70 000 people in Mackay :P I know about 10...

I can't say that I've heard of any daves that play with LR.

Ha fair enough! Worth a shot.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

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.

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.)

Thanks Diana - I had guessed most of that, but very nice to have your confirmation. Reinforces what I said about colour.

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

Originally Posted by Gustav

Ha fair enough! Worth a shot.

haha, yea no worries ay. Wish I knew more LR ppl here

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

Originally Posted by alanw

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.
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

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.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Thanks Diana - I had guessed most of that, but very nice to have your confirmation. Reinforces what I said about colour.

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).

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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.

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.