Ok, now this is very clear! The only thing which does not seem to have
provenance is the use of the B to start the vin. It is Assumed that this
meant that it was the 60's decade designation, however, I don't remember
seeing that. The 947 seems entirely logical for my car. I am a happy
camper now....
many thanks.. wanna try my old husky lawn tractor number now, lol...
thanks again!
drmayf
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On 5/6/2011 10:23 AM, Bill Rogers Motorsport Memories wrote:
> DrMayf has asked some questions concerning Tiger VINs and here is what I
> conclude from looking at the numbering system and from an engineering
> background where, as you design stuff, you have to give it part numbers for
> manufacturing, planning and spares provisioning.
>
> Ron Fraser is right that B means a 1960-and-on model. Early car models had no
> prefix and A was introduced for the new designs for the 1950 model year.
>
> The Tiger is a modified Alpine in an engineering sense (sorry purists) so we
> need to look at the number sequence of Alpines. Although the Alpine floor pan
> apparently evolved from the Husky there seems to be no link to Husky VINs.
>
> > From the Alpine Parts List 6600992 June 1968 we see chassis numbers
>commencing
> with:
>
> Series I B9000001
>
> This makes sense; a new model for 1960 (the first Alpine came out in '59)
> thus B and 9 was assigned to the Alpine model.
>
> Series II B9100001
>
> Minor modifications but you can tell the difference with the 1
>
> Series III B9200001
>
> Same thing - Series III has that 2
>
> Series IV B9400001
>
> This is interesting, they skipped over 3 to 4. I bet the factory/dealers were
> getting confused. "The Mk II is a 1 and the Mk III is a 2 - thats pretty dumb"
> So now the Mk IV is a 4 - bingo!
>
> Next on the list is Series IV Built Up B94100001
> Series IV C.K.D B94600001
>
> I am not exactly sure what the difference between a Series IV and a Series IV
> Built Up means but I suspect it had some thing to do with the build state in
> which they were exported and they needed to differentiate between them and
> fully assembled cars. C.K.D means "knocked down" - cars delivered in pieces to
> be assembled abroad like the African Violets. The third digit was added to
> differentiate these.
>
> Look what is next: B94700001 - A Series 4 Alpine modified into a Mk I Tiger.
>
> Series V Alpine B395000001 Built Up
> B395900001 C.K.D
>
> It does not look like we are following the sequence, but we are. We have B950
> 00001 with a 3 added on front for some reason and the B959 designated the
> knocked down version, again with the extra 3.
>
> Enter the Tiger IA: B382000001. We have the B and the 3 but where did the 82
> come from? I would have expected B94800001 or B394800001.
> The Mk II Tiger followed the IA as a minor mod with B382100001; not
> withstanding my previous post where at one time it was going to be
> B392000001.
>
> To repeat, this is my interpretation of the available data and not based on
> information from the people involved. Perhaps Norm or one of the other Gurus
> would care to pitch in.
>
> Bill
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