Thread: Barney - a 1958 Series II

Peter
Tub looks great with the gal pieces on it.
Where did you get the lights? Are they new?
Cheers
Angus

Thanks Angus,

I keep going out to the shed just to stand there and look at it,

Now that there is some body panels going on I find my enthusiasm growing again, I can't wait to get stuck in!
The lights are new, I got them from Craddocks as I do with most of the parts I buy; but they are just cheap Britparts items, anybody will have them. I plan to replace the bulbs with LED to try and up the visibility, compared to modern taillights these are very tiny.







I'm looking for the mounting rail and support bracket for the truck cab.
Anybody got one they would sell? Possibly someone who has done a rag-top conversion?

Thanks,
Peter.

Those tail lights appear to be the ones fitted to 90/110/Defender. These do not incorporate a reflector, so if you use these a separate reflector is needed. (a rivet countermight suggest fitting the correct lights!

In good condition those lights were considered perfectly acceptable for the Defender well into the 2000s, so I'm not sure why you want to upgrade them. And you should note that fitting LED bulbs to fittings designed for incandescent bulbs makes them non-compliant. However, provided it does a good job of providing light of the same colour in the same distribution as the original, it is unlikely to be picked up.

Hmm. O-kay...

Ignorance on my part of course - I didn't realize there were different variations. I'll need to look further into it.

While I'd never consider myself a rivet counter (there's already been too many deviations for that), if the right part is available I'll try and use it.

My 1960 has Lucas l638 Park /flasher on front contacts changed to dual and Lucas l637 flashers and l581 stop /tail all red no window and Lucas l467 glass number plate lamp not 100% they correct for my year or yours and also going off memory for Lucas numbers someone may be able to confirm as well can take pictures for you
Here are the lenses

Thanks for the details on the lights - will start to plan what I will use.

Cheers
Angus

Darren,

thanks for those codes mate, I like the look of them.
I’ll look further into it.

Peter

Those lights are the ones fitted to late Series 2a. Not sure what 1958 Australian ones had, but I'm certain the front parking lights were smaller and had glass lenses. Note that almost all Australian delivered Series Landrovers had the rear numberplate on a hinged bracket attached to the tailgate, as the standard plate does not fit between the tailgate and the side.

A couple of points -

1. Lights fitted varied both over time and where the vehicle was assembled. As local content increased, locally made electrical equipment was used, mostly by Lucas, but not necessarily what was fitted to Home Market vehicles.

2. 1958 was certainly not delivered with blinkers. These were not a legal substitute for hand signals then (I got my licence that year!). Blinkers would have been fitted by a later owner and would have been most likely an aftermarket kit, not a Rover one. I fitted them to my 1958 model in 1963 or 4.