The first change (stage 1) was to bring the grille section forward to accommodate different engine, one of which was the petrol V8 in the Series III stage1 V8. They started the redesign by bringing the grill forward to the headlamp position. There were looking at other car designs with single piece headlamp and grill section but, because the Land Rover wasn’t a monocoque design, they couldn’t combine the headlamps and grill in a single section. Bringing the grille forward gave us the look they wanted.
The first design with the forward grill still used the original Series III headlamp bezels and split screen. Moving the grille meant that they had to lengthen the bonnet, of course. The single price windscreen came later, following legislation changes in Europe regarding visibility of high mounted traffic light signals. At the time they use very big drawings because they didn’t have clay. They were cut photograph of the Hi Cap Pick up on the left.
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