Series 2A ID Request

My first 2a, a 1961 model I bought in 1965 was fitted with its original steel tray. This tray was all steel except for wooden side and tail boards. It had a sticker on it showing it was built by an Adelaide.

Like most traybacks at this time the tray was supplied locally (if you call Adelaide local to A.S.!).

John

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

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? .

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Hi, I'm not sure if you're talking to me or Alan re this?
Gus

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Originally Posted by Gustav

Hi, I'm not sure if you're talking to me or Alan re this?
Gus

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In case you meant me, the distance measures 81mm if I've understood you correctly. See pic attached:

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Originally Posted by Gustav

In case you meant me, the distance measures 81mm if I've understood you correctly. See pic attached:

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Exactly the measurement I needed. :TakeABow:

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Exactly the measurement I needed. :TakeABow:

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Nice find. :)

Unfortunately it wasn't distributed in NSW, but it would likely have been assembled in August 1967.

Australian production of 347 prefix vehicles commenced on 20th March 1967.

The closest vehicles to yours that I have records of are:

• 34700816A delivered to customer 18/9/67
• 34700847A delivered to customer 7/9/67

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I saw this post of yours on a different thread & was wondering if you had any records closer to my chassis number of 34700217A &/or could tell me if it was distributed in NSW?
Thanks,
Gus

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Originally Posted by Gustav

I saw this post of yours on a different thread & was wondering if you had any records closer to my chassis number of 34700217A &/or could tell me if it was distributed in NSW?
Thanks,
Gus

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Unfortunately it doesn't appear in the NSW Allocations books.

The closest vehicles were 34700198A and 34700253A both sent to dealers in May 1967 but I guess you knew the year as the six cylinder normal control were released for the 67 model year.

Diana :)

Interesting about colour . My '70 wagon six is originally the dove grey, although some where along the way some 1 thought a weedy green was the go! Also I always thought the battery for sixes were always located under the passenger seat, or did it vary?? It does have the recessed deluxe bonnet.

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Unfortunately it doesn't appear in the NSW Allocations books.

The closest vehicles were 34700198A and 34700253A both sent to dealers in May 1967 but I guess you knew the year as the six cylinder normal control were released for the 67 model year.

Diana :)

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Thanks Diana, May 1967 seems a pretty fair assumption based on all those records.


I managed to speak to the previous owner who did the rebuild/resto work on the vehicle today - he reckons it's virtually all original & based on the engine condition when he had it apart thinks the 38,500 miles on the odometer is a genuine reading - I don't know about that tho!
He did the respray to the current green & said the original colour was "Sun gold" which fits with John's "orangy" colour & the yellow sandstone colour you mentioned for the early sixes. He also painted the brackets underneath that I thought may have been army green - an old can of "Brunswick Green" he had lying around.

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Originally Posted by schuy1

Interesting about colour . My '70 wagon six is originally the dove grey, although some where along the way some 1 thought a weedy green was the go! Also I always thought the battery for sixes were always located under the passenger seat, or did it vary?? It does have the recessed deluxe bonnet.

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The RAN had all their vehicles in grey until some time in the 1970s. Do you know the origins of your vehicle?

Yes the six cylinders had their batteries under the LH seat, but I remember in the mid 1970s (about 1976) when Leyland Australia modified a batch of 16 gal under seat fuel tanks to produce 15gal under seat tanks for station wagons, a number of members of the LROC S relocated the battery to the engine bay which gave the wagons 46 gal of fuel without having to carry jerry cans.

Now that's interesting, The only thing I know is that the person I got it from bought it as a restorer from Townsville.He thought it had been a local vehicle all its life. Apart from that I know nothing.