Thread: Series III Ex-National Parks Model?

Originally Posted by poundsterling

G/day to the forum,

Went digging through some old photos over the weekend and found some on the Series 3 Wagon I was mentioning earlier.

This unit (photo attached) was ex Civil Aviation, had the ID No and Asset No on the inside LH door post.
The vehicle as it presents in the photos was exactly as I purchased it from the Commonwealth Auctions.

Winch, brush bars, skid plates underneath, angle bar bolted to the front spring mounts for steering protection, RH and LH fuel tanks, and a large galvanised water tank behind the drivers seat (filler on upper LH panel, also a nice bronze tap outside the vehicle, even had a sunvisor and free wheel hubs came with the Landrover. Up until them I had never seen a sunvisor on a Landie!

Hope thats of interest.

Cheers.

My County has a sunvisor. They are still available. normal State and Federal Govt. options on vehicles was painted metal sunvisor and driver's door weathershield.

That old lwb is very tidy. Did the trailer come with it from the auction? My one has white sunvisors, you put them down and they block half of the already small windscreen

Originally Posted by trm1988

That old lwb is very tidy. Did the trailer come with it from the auction? My one has white sunvisors, you put them down and they block half of the already small windscreen

Hello trm1988,

Yes she was a beauty, the trailer was ex army & had it painted a similar colour to the Landrover.

Cheers

Brings back memories! My father was a diesel mechanic for DCA, based at Eagle Farm. He spent much of his time installing gen sets as back up power for regional airports, and also comms. towers. Depending on what the team was doing where, one of the work trucks would come home. Usually it was an International or Dodge van, but I seem to recall the odd Land Rover as well. Would have been a long trip to Charleville in a S3!

Sunvisors were optional from some time in Series 3 production, and were fitted to all (civilian) late production ute cab S3 in Australia. I'm pretty certain they were standard with deluxe trim from when they became available some time in the seventies.

Aftermarket ones were not uncommon on earlier Series, often off other vehicles - I had one on my S1 in 1962. Aftermarket sunvisors were readily available in the 1950s, when there were still a lot of pre-war cars in use, and long deliveries on new cars.