Queen Elizabeth is 94 today and still has impeccable taste. I wonder is she has ordered a new Defender to replace this one?

 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Happy birthday Ma’am

dorsetfreelander wrote:

Queen Elizabeth is 94 today and still has impeccable taste. I wonder is she has ordered a new Defender to replace this one?

Phil has most of his hair so a Series 1 surely possibly this one, 1956 Land Rover Series 1 107” Station Wagon my PC is slightly to the right of Genghis
2012 HSE SD4 In Orkney Grey now gone, best car ever.

Definitely not a S1 - they are all flat sided, the shoulder bulge out (whatever it is called) came in with the S2

Oh and 1st post here, so hello everyone - I recently bought a 14 plate Dynamic tho at the moment not a great deal of opportunity to actually drive it

OK all of you Defender nerds out there, which model is this?


 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
5 x FL2 4 manual + 1 auto
Now Discovery Sport P250 MHEV SE

Series 1 86" The Queens one looks like a Series 2 due to the individual windscreen wipers and the double ended wheel nuts. (very hard to see!)

dorsetfreelander wrote:

OK all of you Defender nerds out there, which model is this?

And a rounded edge bonnet

PRadd wrote:

Definitely not a S1 - they are all flat sided, the shoulder bulge out (whatever it is called) came in with the S2:

this bulge out here - no Series one had that -


This is what all Series 1 sides look like (this is my 1956/7 88" model) -



And the round edged (at the front) bonnet as Mowog said

A great Marylin pic and a very famous one

And none of the vehicles is a defender btw  2014 Freelander 2 TD4 Manual Dynamic
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover - undergoing restoration

dondiddy wrote:

Series 1 86" The Queens one looks like a Series 2 due to the individual windscreen wipers and the double ended wheel nuts. (very hard to see!)

Mowog wrote:

And a rounded edge bonnet

The basic!! 11A came without the rounded bonnet edge,
My 64 Safari spec, had the rounded edge.

It could be the number of Rivets.
Dave DAVE.
I.A.M. F1rst Driver.
Gone 2003 Discovery TD5 Auto,
Gone 1986 Defender 90 Station Wagon
Gone 1984 Range Rover 3.5 Vogue Manual.
Gone 1970 Series 11A/3 SWB 3.5 V8 Hybrid
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Van
Gone 1966 Series 11A SWB Van
Gone 1964 Series 11A LWB Station Wagon,

It's a series 2. The glaringly obvious pointer is the deep sill. Probably the quickest way of distinguishing between 2 and 2A at a glance. You don't need to look at anything else.

After a bit of googling I now believe that it is a series 2A as the station wagon was not introduced until 1962 and the series 2 was from 1958 to 1961. Short sills did not appear until around 1969 with the series 2A suffix G (when the headlights moved from the front panel into the wings)

The Station Wagons came along during S1 production - so definitely pre 1958 and I think there were both 107" & 109" SWs so before the change in length that was added that took 86" models to 88" and 107" to 109" (not sure on date but somewhere mid 50's) 2014 Freelander 2 TD4 Manual Dynamic
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover
1956/7 88" Series One Land Rover - undergoing restoration