Did IIA ever come with a plastic grill and rounded hood?

Someone told me that plastic grills were a Series III only item...as was the rounded hood.
Thanks

Some very very late SIIA had plastic grills.

if hood you mean bonnet then some series 2a have rounded bonnet as mine is a 69 with one but it has the steel mesh grill with lights in the centre panel

Plastic grill was Ser III only, but it could be, and often was, easily retrofitted to late IIA's to make them look newer.

Hi,

I believe the rounded bonnet (hood) was a "de luxe option".

Nope, just checked my parts book. Only two bonnets shown, both curved front edge, one with spare wheel recess, one without. There is reference to a 1-ton bonnet, but no picture. Maybe the sharp bonnet was WD only?

602

i think the 1 ton bonnet is listed seperately because i "think" it carried the larger 900x16 tyres so would need a larger recess to allow forward vision

but the best looking bonnet is definitely the "razor edge"

Thanks you guys. That is helpful. I am in Thailand and tracking the Serial number off the frame has helped little except to put me in a 5 year window. Tags say 1969...the mechanics are telling me its a IIA mostly because of the windscreen brakets. Any other comments or adders welcome.

Thanks again

What's the problem, Tag says '69, mechanic says IIA, so it all looks ok.
If your still worried post some photos, and I'm sure lots of us will give their opinions, but remember it's 40 years old, so may have had many later, or even earlier, bits fitted.

w3526602 said:

Hi,

I believe the rounded bonnet (hood) was a "de luxe option".

Nope, just checked my parts book. Only two bonnets shown, both curved front edge, one with spare wheel recess, one without. There is reference to a 1-ton bonnet, but no picture. Maybe the sharp bonnet was WD only?

602

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The razor edge bonnet was the normal fitment on swb utilities until the mid-1970s. Station wagons and all 109"s got the deluxe bonnet. The 1-ton bonnet is stonger and has side catches rather then a centre catch, but it seems they used MOD spec bonnets on a lot of vehicles, mine even has cut outs for radio cabling even though it was civvy from new.

interesting, can anyone tell me what the bonnet wheel carrier is like on the razor edge bonnet?
precious owner removed it and left the holes!
its not the dished bonnet.

James

one other way of finding the approx year of manufacture is off the glass - under the word toughened there will be a small dot, corresponds to the year of the glass being made ( hence the "trade" pricing bible is called glass's guide), same goes for laminated glass

what would be handy here is a spec sheet for each vehicle/series.
eg what the utility came with, till when, so forth.
anyone know if there is such a database out there?

Jamesbil said:

what would be handy here is a spec sheet for each vehicle/series.
eg what the utility came with, till when, so forth.
anyone know if there is such a database out there?

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No such thing.
Landrover only differnatiated between utilities and station wagons, and by engine type. Special models such as Lightweight, 1-Tons and forward controls also got their own chassis sequences.
There is no way to tell what body details a utility Landrover had when new. With station wagons, the chassis number sequences were only different at certain times, early on they were muddled in with utilities, I think seperate sequencing came in in about 1964ish IIRC.

Bodywise, it was only really the bonnet that ever changed, the razor edge type was dropped altogether in about 1977 at the time they rationalised production. Very late series IIIs got things like fog lamps. With the IIs and IIAs most changes were under the skin until 1969 when the headlamps moved.
The series 2 club are/were trying to make a timeline of all the changes for II and IIA models.