1949 Land Rover Series 1 Convertible

Very Early Military Land Rover with great history. Built in the first week of the 1950 Model Year, Aug 1949. Still retains its Early parts like the Lights behind the grill and ring pull gear box. A true time capsule nearly exactly as it was decommissioned in Sep. 1962. It has had the benefit of being imported to the USA in Feb 1963 and stored in an airport hanger since. Used and maintained the whole time. I have every single California registration from 1963 until today.
It has an oil Change Sticker on it from 2-24-1963 showing the mileage at 48,763. Mileage currently is 56,986. SO I assume it has very low miles total on the rebuild.
It runs and drives PERFECT. That is no exaggeration. It will amaze you. You pull the choke and the choke light in the dash still lights up. Hit the starter button and it instantly fires every single time. Idles smooth with no smoke. I have driven it to a few shows and it drives great.
It does have added turn signals for safety since it is left hand drive. Wrong fuel pump. And turn signals are really the only thing not correct. And the battery cables too I guess should be added to that list.
It still wears its paint it was decommissioned from the military with. The paint is under the chassis to and if cleaned I would guess 90% of the chassis still wears paint. ZERO rust anywhere EVER. Original Glass.
I have recently given her New STA tires, Shocks, brakes, fuel lines to make her safe and reliable. Correct New Canvas from Tom Pickford in the UK. The military markings are original.
44th INDEPENDENT PARACHUTE BRIGADE GROUP PROVOST COMPANY ROYAL MILITARY POLICE [TERRITORIAL ARMY] FROM 1961 AND WAS BASED IN LONDON AND LIVERPOOL.
The Ramsey winch is PTO driven and I believe added when it came state side in 1963. It works great.
I do have a few small spares and do have the door tops in original condition.
The top iron are original except the two forward support rods (Sourced from Tom Pickford as well).
I do have the original canvas but it is very fragile.

The grill was cut out to clean the headlights, known to have been done while in military service. I have semi repaired it using a later series one grill.