2a grill ?

[muz22z]

Hi,
My 1970 2a has a plastic s3 type grill fitted. Is that the correct grill? Did the 2a get a plastic grill when the headlights moved to the guards or should it have a wire grill?

[stage1slave]

Hi,
My 1970 2a has a plastic s3 type grill fitted. Is that the correct grill? Did the 2a get a plastic grill when the headlights moved to the guards or should it have a wire grill?

My thoughts are that it should have the metal,+ shaped grill. Plastic ones were fitted to the very last s11a's, but that wasn't for a couple of years after yours, ie, early 1972ish.
I could be wrong and probably am, but someone will correct me.

cheers
ER

[JDNSW]

I was not aware of any S2a with a plastic grille. The headlight in guard ones should be a + shape metal as said.

John

[RobHay]

I am with JD on this IIA grills should be metal......the plastic did not come in until the later series III

[Shonky]

Should be like this one:



(from roverhaul.com)

[d@rk51d3]

Should be like this one:



(from roverhaul.com)

Unless it was a Six, then it would have the horizontal bar type metal grille................. or was that the diesel grille?

[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,

[stage1slave]

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,

sounds and looks the same as the one off our '71 11a, SIX cylinder.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Unless it was a Six, then it would have the horizontal bar type metal grille................. or was that the diesel grille?

Yes the six had the horizontal bar type but only if it was a Pressed Metal Corp built Land Rover. The Solihull built ones had the grill that Shonky described.

Diana

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

[LWB123]

My Dad's 72 model 2A was a six cylinder, and one other post noted they had the same grill on their 71 model six cylinder. The last post suggested this was a grille used on 6's exclusively by PMC in Australia cf. what the UK LRs were fitted with.

Is that only true of the Australian 6 cylinder variants?

What grille did the wide-light 4 cylinder 2As have? Without really thinking about it, I had thought that they were the same thing, bar for the small 6 cylinder badge lower down the grille - my cousin had one which I probably walked past a couple of hundred times over 20 years and thought it was the same.

FWIW I also previously had a 69 model SWB that I am pretty sure was a 2A narrow-light model (had the cream wheels, newer steering wheel and toggles switches for lights and wiper that went through until the Series 3). It had a similar pattern grille to our wide-light 6 except for the headlights requiring the top of the grill to narrow to fit. To my limited understanding of things LR, this arrangement replaced the older square mesh profile and was carried through the whole range here.

Not life or death stuff - but it had the old memory stretched.