LOL almost as colorful as Saab, or Morris history. On the grill it says "Land Rover", in a paragraph describing the actual vehicle, they refer to it as "The Rover as it is officially known" (Tamiya's words), even though in the first paragraph it states it is a "Land Rover"...lol According to the desription paragraph The Army designation was "Rover 7 (FV 18044)" utilizing a Land Rover frame, engine (with a few military specifications to beef-up suspension, bigger cooling system, heater, etc.) But it was the "Mickleover Transport Co. Ltd. in 1961-1962" who actually assembled the "Rover". They also built some cloth covered Rovers and a more models designated the "Rover 9" with some improvements to the amount of patients they could hold (increasing to 4 stretches instead of 2). I'll see if I can research it anymore (I know that the intro paragraphs are notoriously incorrect).
Thanks for the input everyone!! I appreciate everyone's motivation. HeavyArty I wanted to do a full OOB build, using no outside references, no other input other than what was recommended or shown in the directions. I know that sounds silly, but I just wanted to see what a build straight out of the box would turn out to be like if built literally to the specs in the directions. Since the tailights weren't in the directions (or even on the box art) I left them out. lol pretty funny, huh?! If you're going to Tamiya con this year check it out, I will leave the directions out with the model (it's going in the OOB comp). Thanks again for everyone's kind words....now back to my Porsche and Panther!