Dormobile Down Under…….

[jerryd]

This 1964 Dormobile is currently on ebay here in Australia. They are extremely rare here possibly 3 or 4 in total 😯
This particular model has chassis number 29618, Engine number 594385P, Dormobile number U.11619.4.626

Can any members shed any light on this car ?? I don’t think it was a true dormobile as it has no fitted furniture, no dormatic seats 🙁 Unless it’s been robbed of fittings over the years.

[Jonny]

If it has the Dormobile plate mounted on the bulkhead, normally in front of the passenger, then I would say it is genuine, but just missing the interior.

John

[jkhackney]

EDIT:

I looked at the ad on the website. It has 4 headlights so either the front panel or the wings aren’t original but you probably knew that. I can’t tell with my experience what I’m looking at; later model with earlier front panel or early model with later wings.

It’s important in dating a land rover chassis number to know the letter at the end. I’ve also never heard of an engine suffix “P” but I don’t know a lot about engines. I only know what’s stamped on my engines and what I read on the www … 😉

The S2 forum in England has really enthusiastic and knowledgeable folk when it comes to Series 2’s and 2a’s. Try this:

http://www.s2cforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=15908.0

My Dormobile is complete up to some luxury items I think it used to have, but its original Martin Walter plate has been transferred to a same-year chassis that we could not find records of ever having been sent to Martin Walter. No one who is less curious than me would have been able to tell. You might say I have an “original” Dormobile but an un-original Land Rover under it! Therefore the presence (or not-) of Martin Walter gear and ID plates might not mean anything more than you choose it to mean. (By the way, I hope I can still stay in the club!!)

-Jeremy

[marc78]

Looking at the interior, it is a 1964 (steering wheel, wipers motors),
Headlamps on wings are bugeye type, these appeared in about 1968.
So you have either “new” wings or you have additional headlights fitted on older wings.
What is clear is that the dormobile side flasher is missing on the wing (has been removed, or has it eveer existed?).
For a 1964 model, these should look like this:
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=234&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15

The red light on the roof is definitely not a dormobile standard fixture, but may be a add on to comply with loval regulations or some tuning attempt from a previous owner?

This vehicle has a story, that is for sure, it may be a genuine one, but with these pictures and an incomplete chassis number, it is not possible – for me – to give you a firm view,
Good luck

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