Thread: SIII SWB side windows?

In Australia, quite rare, although they are the same as in the 109 wagon, a little less rare - but I have an idea they are the same window as the rear cab window, and they are not rare.

John

As John said, they are very rare. Swb station wagons, other than the 'Game', were never sold here from new. There are some, that have been private imports, or have been retrofitted from lwb wagons though. I'm also pretty sure the same goes for the one peice rear door. Our ex factory models all had the tailgate and lift up top.
cheers

just had a quick chat with dad, back in the 80's he had a 1978 SIII SWB, originally purchased by either the customs service or melbourne port authority, and interestingly, it had the proper station wagon roof with the sliding side windows, alpine lights, one piece rear door, and he vaguely recalls it having the extra 7 seats in the rear.....

he also reckons it had a pile of extra wiring, radio gear, etc in it when he bought it, as well as having a bottom PTO

when he sold it, it also had the rear PTO fitted, but no driveshaft or rear crossmember output or pulley.....

and yes, he regrets selling it

They were the 7 seat Station Wagons, alpine windows, tropical roof, deluxe trim and side opening rear door.

There weren't that many, but I would suggest too many for it to be just private imports. I seem to remember that the Dept. of Civil Aviation also had them and in which case they must have been available on Government Contract and built to order or UK assembled.

Will have a look through the Grenville books but I would suggest the extra cost of the trim package etc may have been too much for the bulk of the civilian buyers. Farmers would have the Land Rover for around the farm etc and a Holden or Falcon Station Wagon for going into town.

I do remember most of the LWB station wagons in the LROC in the early 1970's had come out of Government service before our members bought them and only in the late 1970s did members buy new Land Rover station wagons.

Diana

i did check with him, and his didnt get the tropical roof

Here's a pic of Missy (ARN 113-300) ... with an identity crisis



The rear side windows are one piece fixed.... it certainly isn't a hack job....

Pete

Those windows remind me of the County or Defender rear windows and someone has merely fitted the glass with a "key rubber" instead of the sliding module.

People like Canopy Industries in Sydney used to fit key rubber windows to all manner of panel vans and it would be an easy task for them to cut out the usual rib and do a professional looking job when fitting the larger window to a Land Rover hard top.

Sounds about right Diana. The rear corner windows are the full size ones as per the Defender/County wagon...

'twas a Sydney car at some point... there's a SCEGS sticker on the back as well...

Pete