[Tigers] 66 or 67?

[sralsten at ca.rr.com]

Funny but I hae a 65 titled car built in Jul 65 according to BON.
but my chassis number is way off yours near the end of Mk1 at 9473720

---- jhef101 at aol.com wrote: 
> This probably fits better under this threadline, so it is a dual post.
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> I dunno, I have a '65 according to Norm and the Book but it says '64 on the
> title. What do I have? The title kinda defines the year doesn't it?
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> Jeff Hefner
> B9470028
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tod Brown <todbrown at roadrunner.com>
> To: tigers at autox.team.net; AAAGLASSS at aol.com
> Sent: Sat, Jan 30, 2010 2:21 pm
> Subject: [Tigers] 66 or 67?
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> I am in the same category as a couple of others here who have reported Tigers
> that were manufactured in 1966 but titled as a 1967. In my case, I bought my
> Tiger new in October of 1966 (it came off the Jensen line in August) but the
> powers that be at the New York DMV decided it was to be titled as a 1967 and
> it has always said so on my registration. When I and my Tiger moved to Maine,
> I presented the NY registration at the Maine DMV and they registered it as a
> 1967. I guess I could have objected, but, then again, you probably have never
> waited in line at the Maine DMV. Net result, I have a 1967 MkIA Sunbeam Tiger
> which carries the license plate 67Tiger to tick the purists off even more. We
> could have the same argument about a couple of Tiger II's that I have seen or
> heard of over the years that were title as 1968's and everybody knows there
> were none built that year. To me, the year is not the important thing, it is
> whether it is a MkIA or a MkII. What you call things doesn't matter too much,
> it seems to me. It is the essence of the object that matters. Of course,
> having come by my surname by way of what genealogists call a "non-paternal
> event" some 200 years ago, I am probably prejudiced.
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> Cheers,
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> Tod Brown (conceived 1940, born in 1941)
> B382002384LRXFE
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