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It turns out that mine was one of only a scant few limestone colored vehicles arriving in TX
About 5 total that I saw. About half way down under the bar.
http://www.lrfaq.org/Series/FAQ.S.chassis_numbering.259.html

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Oh yeah- it drives.

I pulled out on the street and headed for a gas station.
Since there hasn't been a full tank of gas ran through, and I'm not sure of the fuel guage yet, I filled to the screen in the fuel neck.
Pulled out on the interstate- @ '50' mph shes got a lot of gear whine, but is tracking true and can
do '55'.  Newer cars aren't passing as fast as I thought they would.  The odometer is relatively close to the mileage markers so its only a couple miles off... or so I thought.
It seems '50' is actually '60' and I was probably up to 65 w/o an overdrive for a short while.
The speedo seems to get more off the faster it goes.
A couple of slowpokes in the slow lane (if there is such a thing in TX) got passed by a 37 y/o vehicle even!  About 40ish miles later I pulled into a gas station and filled the tank back to the screen. 
It got 13.7 mpg with a big azz rochester on it in a square box doing '60'!!
Typical leaks - I call it 'marking its spot' - after parking.  For all the rattles and gear whine though it made it without incident.
Life is good.

Better Black Bumper

I got around to taking off the winch and front bumper to paint and mount them better. (I'll actually bolt it on this time)  Got some 5 ton tow rings welded on top too.
Low gloss black looks pretty sweet.

  Realized the winch has less oil in it than the rover does- gotta fill it up and reseal it.  I don't know how old the winch is, AFAIK its been on a blazer (previous owner), small cherokee, FSbronco, & a willys cj2a.  It does have the relays mounted externally, which makes it post 1973.  Coincidence? I think not.

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Horns.

No- I'm not going to make a joke with that word.
The original low monotone horn was sad- meaning that when the engine was running you could barely hear it from in cab.
I acquired a set of hi/ low horns for the grand total of $7.50 from harbor freight. They are blingy chromed plastic and came with a relay and "instructions" to hook them up. Instructions is in quotes due to the lack of english speaking translators making the sheet. i.e. 'fit wire overon slot to make grounding happen.'
yeh.
Anyway the supplied relay didn't work so that was replaced with a spare.
The original horn wires went to the sides of the relay, battery power off of the thermal fuse that supplies my headlight relays and the sending wire to both power terminals. These horns had dual power terminals so the others were grounded to the mounts.
I don't know how long these will last- but these puppies are LOUD! Enough to scare the ricers.

I got gas- in the rover

I finally drove the rover UNDER ITS OWN POWER to the gas (petrol) station today. The state trooper *thankfully* didn't look twice at it. After getting the voltage stabilizer installed the gas gauge moved from full bottomed out to mid E on about 2 gallons of gas.
I had to jump start it, I beleive that the power cable to the starter wasn't tightened enough.
It accelerated pretty good, but with 32 x 11.5 15s it had to get to top gear pretty quick. I filled up the rest of the way with 9.7 gallons. This gives me 3/4 tank. Now I need to bend the tank float to make it full. I noticed that the speedo wasn't working. Pulled the guage cluster, plugged in the speedo cable that I forgot, and checked everything. A quick trip around the drive and the speedo works, the odometer is in question of how accurate it is, but hey- it does work.