mk1 door

[Time Bandit]

Time bandit, I'd love to see some more pics of your Landy. It looks fantastic!

No probs, I'll sort some out and resize them over the weekend and start another thread with them rather than clutter this one up and take the focus off MK1 door variations! Funny thing is, in a roundabout way it was the LR that lead to me to this forum believe it or not!

In the meantime though, here is a resized one I happened to have handy on the laptop...

Mike

[timmy201]

Great!

We even get how to do it on stealing cars while in Aus now

PS. Probably works for Italy & South Africa too !

By now pretty much any key will fit any door too!

[mk1]

Nice Lany, I have always had a soft spot for lightweights.

[rich@minispares.com]

Nice Lany, I have always had a soft spot for lightweights.

ahem

'airportables'


any landrover will turn into a 'lightweight' if you leave it long enough

[Nick W]

this is how not to deliver your airportables!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YsSL65quM

[rich@minispares.com]

this is how not to deliver your airportables!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-YsSL65quM

I suppose it depends what you are dropping them on

GET SUM!!!!!

[Peter Laidler]

That's why you clear the dropping zone of men before you come in with the heavy stuff. Nice to see a lightweight again but the special non standard spares for them were always known as 'dues-out', a technical way of saying 'on back order from L-R' so the lightweights would be off the road for a few weeks at a time. In the meantime, it'd slowly be cannibalised for other bits for the other lightweights......... and so it went on! My friend in Devon has one that he's restored to Rolls-Royce like condition with gleaming mechanicals and deep bronze green gloss bodywork. Didn't see many like that on Salisbury Plain!

[dodge44]

While we are here talking door production differences, when did the catch hole change from a round hole to an oblong one? I'm assuming it was when the handle escutcheon changed from just locating in the skin, to being held in with two screws (196?). Round hole example is from a 1962 car and the oblong was I think originally from a Riley Elf.

Book shows these options but there may be more:

14A6830 ESCUTCHEON
24A1139 ESCUTCHEON CHASSIS A-A257-327629-M & M-A254-160372 onwards. Plus 156501-160000.

24A2084 ESCUTCHEON

24A2245 ESCUTCHEON LOCKING
24A2246 ESCUTCHEON NON-LOCKING

[Peter Laidler]

Surely, the hole, whether it's the ROUND one or the OVAL one, it MUST align with the central axis of the door handle shaft so whether the hole is round or oval it can't be anything to do with the exterior handle can it? Maybe it's to allow the doors to cater for what we used to call 'manufacturers variants or tolerances'

[Tim]

Great!

We even get how to do it on stealing cars while in Aus now

PS. Probably works for Italy & South Africa too !

Aren't the locks just cosmetic? It would be the same in South Africa, they used our doors, but the Italian ones are different and might have a small catch that stops the latch on the quarter vent from being flipped aside.

Tim

[Nick W]

whilst adjusting the mk1 doors , I was struggling to get the them flush at the rear. not tight on the seals, just not enough adjustment. although it only needed less than 1mm, theirs is no way to file the striker mounting holes, or the striker.
so I went to look for a less worn striker in my parts boxes.
the one I found is 2mm deeper, so it looks like they had a choice on the production line when building the doors up
this one alowed the door to be adjusted fully flush

[mk1]

Now that is very interesting!

Door fit was obviously an issue even back then.

[Hipwell]

Back on topic maybe this...

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/GPO-Mini-Van-r ... 3179340014

[Peter Laidler]

I think that you have got the answer to the extra oval slot there! It's a shame that the GPO vans didn't have a special locking mech for the wheels! When the GPO at Newbury (just off the) Market Square HQ got and proudly displayed 10 brand new shiny red minivans to the local Newbury Weekly News in the mid 70's, they turned up the next morning to find two of them on bricks - with the wheels missing

[rich@minispares.com]

in the interest of learning things, I have made a 'forum purchase'.....

1 x GPO door lock







I think this puts to bed what the oval hole is for!

[mk1]

Thanks for taking one for the team Rich. Another mystery solved for good.

[timell]

Bingo!

[Pete]

So my GPO van theory was right.

Told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so.....

[Hipwell]

Just got to build a post office van to go around it now!

[rich@minispares.com]

So my GPO van theory was right.

Told you so told you so told you so told you so told you so.....

its just going to be something else to spot on the 'exceptionally restored' cars that appear on ebay and the like

'upside down door cards'

'GPO doors'