Couple things about the items below. The pleated door trim and door top
rolls, those are the bigger tops that came on the later Tigers, that needed
different quarter windows. The doors themselves had little metal brackets
or stands welded on to snap the door panels in because the panels went over
the metal edges of the door as seen on the non-GT doors. Those door panels
also had flat metal edging all the way around - covered by the vinyl.
Sadly, my Alpine came with a very nice set of metal, as most are rusted
away. I sent them to Martha, who lost mine. So, I redid my doors as STs.
I like the body paint color there anyway. I was able to get replacement GT
door tops, and I still have the GT quarter windows. But I never did
replace those metal edges. One day, maybe. Too many other priorities.
Jay
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:08 AM, michael king <michael.s.king@gmail.com>wrote:
> GT vs ST;
>
> In the S3 the GT model was introduced in the beginning the GT had;
> full carpet
> wood dash
> wod wheel
> sun visors
> interior light
> pleated door trims
> door top rolls
> no soft top
> standard hardtop
> different spec twin carbs with big aircleaner (later went to single carb as
> sis ST but Gt had bigger filter)
> under bonnet insulation
> Single cast manifold instead of separate headers
>
> all the interior changes carried over on SIV/V GT's..(bar hood padding)
> except SV GT had a wood veneer over plastic dash VS over plywood
> of S3/IV
>
>
> On 23 September 2013 07:48, snakebit289 <snakebit289@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not home yet, but from what I understand about what Rootes was doing
> > for the Alpine GT versus the Sports Tourer for Series III and IV is that
> > they wanted the GT's to run quieter than the Sport Tourers. The bonnet
> > padding is one change, and I believe I read that the air filter housings
> > for GT were different as well, which may account for IIRC lower
> horsepower
> > ratings for the GT versus the Sports Tourer. I don't remember if Rootes
> did
> > this for the 1725cc motor, I'm a little more certain that this applied to
> > the 1600cc cars.
> >
> > Rande Bellman
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