#pointlessLandRoverTrivia

"Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull" (RamblinRover) 09/29/2013 at 21:14 • Filed to: None

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This style of headlight (without chrome, recessed) was present for only about one year ~1968. This was the last year before Land-Rovers obtained headlights on the wings, which continues to today, and brought to an end the upside-down T grill which had followed the Rover almost since inception. I've got a spare radiator support of this style on hand, so it will contribute to the hodge-podge oddballness of my cousin's '64.

Squid > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 09/29/2013 at 21:24

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I don't know why I like these Land Rovers so much. They are like an ugly bulldog that is so ugly it becomes cute.

Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull > Squid 09/29/2013 at 21:51

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In USA Today, Guillermo Del Toro said that the Australian Jaeger in Pacific Rim was modeled after a Land Rover. "It is very elegant and the most male of all the robots."

Heh. Not sure I'd use the word "elegant" for a Landy.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull 09/29/2013 at 22:06

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Here is an example of an earlier US IIA (and one of it's grand children) with the high beams separate. The square indicator lights were butt effing ugly so my dad threw on some Brit indicators as they look much nicer.

Ramblin Rover - The Vivisector of Solihull > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 09/29/2013 at 22:44

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Square indicators would have been fitted at a dealer, I suspect. Most early IIs/IIas pre-standardization of indicators were installed in the "factory recommended" if-you-will location next to the parking lamps (as both my family's IIs are), but some dealers presumably ordered them sans indicators and put them on wherever they felt like. In some cases, that's the military style, one over the other closeby. Separate high-beams would be probably further odd dealer ordering and in-house "fixing".