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243 Model: Land Rover, Series IIA
Body type: Basic or Station wagon
Wheel base: 88in
Engine: petrol
Model years: 1962-1971
Destination: Completely knocked down (CKD), right-hand drive (RHD)
03923 Serial number
B Design: One significant design modification
Suffix used from March 1963 till April 1966
From this very useful website; Clifton Scientific Text Services, the Netherlands
Click on the LR VIN button down the lower left side.
CalVIN is O.K but not accurate for the suffix letters of the forward control models. CalVIN merely assumes that the suffix letter applies to both bonneted control and forward control series Land Rovers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ianyates
I use Classic Land Rovers in Norway. Classic Land Rovers
Diana
I reckon its a S2aQuote:
Originally Posted by Jock The Rock
Here's a picture of my S2 inside - note the wind out vents and no horn button on the steering wheel (like a series 1)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...08/08/1033.jpg
Have a look at Treads S2 also, for comparison
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Some more threads on S2's
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-2-2...e-s2-bits.html
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-2-2...series-ii.html
G'day Jock the Rock :)
Your Vehicle with that chassis No reads as a Series 2a,RH Drive CKD (Complete Knocked Down) Kit,which would have been shipped to Aust and assembled at Pressed Metal Corp. at Enfield in Sydney the actual number reads as 1961 short wheel base(88)Basic, and is the 03922 second, vehicle produced in that year. it is also Chassis Suffix "B", the engine number is on the flat section just ahead of the exhaust manifold front branch on the angled bit, and will be something like 241-----
similar style to the chasis No.
It would have had a 2.25 petrol motor fitted. and have been Positive Earth Electrics
Source: Master Parts book chassis reference.
cheers
The post 1966 steering column makes it a bit more awkward, and some people like the S2 screw vent regulators over the S2a type and retrofitted them but it looks to be an S2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sleepy
Diana
Good point Diana - I felt it may have had a later steering wheel/column fittedQuote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
G'day Folks :)
That looks mighty like a series 2a up to suffix "D" steering column to me and with the correct wheel and horn button.
cheers
Uncle HoQuote:
Originally Posted by UncleHo
We're talking about the second pic - that column shouldn't be with that dash and those vent regulators. Should they?
Diana :confused:
This whole thread should point out that it is impossible to identify the date of a Series 2/2a (or any Series 2-3) Landrover from details such as dash, steering wheel, vent controls etc. All of them, in fact almost all parts, are interchangeable, at least as complete assemblies, all the way from the first Series 2 to the last Series 3, and there would be very few Series 2/2a or, indeed Series 3) that have not had some foreign, usually, but not necessarily, later parts fitted.
For example, my own Series 2a has cab, doors, seats, instruments, alternator bracket and steering wheel from a Series 3, as is the distributor. Two of the wheels are from a much older 2a, as is the rear axle.
The only way of positively identifying the model is from the chassis number stamped on the chassis.
John
G'day All, Well said John, I know of a 88" Land Rover that has had a bulkhead swap, the owner thought it was ex-mil, because of the nom/plate fitted, the only ex-mil bit was the b/head, cheers Dennis:wasntme:
PS It was a tad dissappointing for them to discover that it wasn't ex-mil:(