Thread: 2a grill ?

This link has some pictures of the grill fitted to my late Series 2A;

2A 88 GS -REMLR

This is a very late 2A with a build date of 9/72 and fitted with a 4 cylinder petrol engine.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

BTW: Brian Danielson at Land Vehicle Spares Silverdale had a whole bunch of NOS horizontal bar ones ex-PMC

I rang LVS and now have a NOS grille on the way down. I told them it was for a 1970 wide light 2a so I will let you know which version I end up with!

No doubt the photo of the Army wide-light 2A in the recent post above clearly shows the square wire pattern grille which may well be right - might also have been retained for the Army models?

Saw another thread today in this Series 2 section where another member had just picked up a 2A wide-light SWB (nice truck too!) and one of the photos of it would seem to have a grille pattern that is similar to the one in the photo of the military LR - although it is a bit hard to actually see at the angle and resolution at which the photo was taken.

Anyway nice to know the real answer.

Cheers,

Ah, here we go......

Check the grille in the pic of the opening post here:

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/series-2-2...and-rover.html


That's the one I was thinking about.

(Thanks Coma!)

Thanks - however, that photo in the other thread is a narrow light 2A like the 4 cylinder SWB that I owned when they were still new back in the late 60's.

The question still at hand for curiosity value was what went on the 4 cylinder 2A wide lights in Australia around 1972? Seems to be general agreement that the UK ones, at least, had the square mesh pattern back then.

Cheers,

this is the grill on my 71 2a, made of round bar. not to many around now as they make good barby grills. I do have a spare.

G'day Folks

The later Suffix"G" onwards 2a "widelight" as you are calling it, would have had a woven metal mesh grille in the 4 cylinder models,like that in Shonky's post (5) and the horizontal round bar as in Wazapinin's post was what was fitted to the 6cyl as sold in Australia, the grille in the post by "coma" (linked by dark 51d3) is that of the 6cyl model before suffix "G" 1967-1969. No Series 2a's where sold in Aust with the plastic Series 3type grille, BUT there were a lot of farmers/graziers that requested the late 2a grille be fitted to the Series 3 on or before delivery new, as the plastic one didn't stand up to country use, (stones etc.)

hope that is of some help I should have the part No's somewhere.


cheers

Originally Posted by LWB123

The grille on my Dad's old wide-light LWB IIA was all metal, but did not look like the one in the photo on the previous post - not evenly square mesh and narrow bit at the top with the LR badge a good bit wider than in the same photo.

Basically it was similar to the last of the narrow headlight models - verticals widely spaced and horizontals in `pairs' close spaced with gaps between each pair of about twice that spacing. Obviously also no indent for the headlights.

Cheers,

hi greetings..
im daniel...
im from indonesia..but i really love and admire australian land rover style...
thats why i joined here..
and according to these pics...
i really want to know about the background or history of these horizontal styles grill? it is a military? or is it a for 6cyl model?
and why these model released? is it has a special purpose?
cuz i have it too in my house,
heres the pics of my grill:

or you see it here:
Daniel Prasetyo Martopo's Palace - My precious goodies n stuffs

thanks before people,
i really love this grill..and that's why i really want to know about the history of the grill...
cuz this is the coolest series land rover grill I've ever seen and own..

thanks again..
Go beyond..!

nb: sorry if my english is bad..