Could be something like that. I hadn't thought about the overseas delivery
program. Scott Christie has the Rootes paperwork on that. I'll have to read it
and see what it says. I would think that you would get a car that was destined
to your country of origin though. EG: An American participating in the program
would get a LRX car. We have plenty of RRO cars on the registry to date, but no
RRX. Maybe it should have been a RRO and not RRX?... Mistakes have been known
to happen on data tags.
Ian Spencer
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>>> Russell Maddock <russell@pbirwin.com.au> 08/20/01 12:49AM >>>
Just a thought, but could it be an order through Rootes' overseas delivery
scheme? I'm not entirely certain how the scheme worked, but I believe a car
could be ordered specially for delivery anywhere in the world.
If a car was to special order rather than for delivery to the usual overseas
concessionaire, they may have used the `X' in the code.
Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Hughes [mailto:hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au]
Sent: Monday, 20 August 2001 15:19
To: Ian Spencer
Cc: alpines@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: RRX
Ian
Another possible country is Sweden, where they had RHD and drove on the
left until sometime in late '60s or early '70s. However, I seem to
remember reading somewhere that Rootes cars exported to Sweden were
left-hand drive, same as those exported to the rest of Europe.
Vic
Ian Spencer wrote:
> Has anyone ever seen a suffix RRX (RHD export, Roadster, Non-standard)?
> Any ideas what country this would apply to? Thanks - Ian
>
> --
> Ian Spencer <www.sunbeamalpine.org>
> '61 Series II Alpine B9104704 LRX
> '61 Harrington Alpine B9104782 OD HRO
> '62 Harrington Le Mans BH9115930 OD LRX
> '62 Harrington Le Mans BH9116754 OD LRX
> '62 Harrington Le Mans BH9117497 OD LRX
> '64 Series IV Automatic B9401426 BW LRX
> '67 Series V Alpine B395016967 LRX
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