[Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature

[Stephen Waybright]

I'd think it kind of tough to change a 45 year old naming convention that has been used in many publications over that time. You'd still need a cross-reference for what Mk-1A meant in those publications. Plus, there are pretty significant physical differences between a Mk-I and MK-IA, which is why the designation came to be in the first place.

Stephen Waybright


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 From: rande <rande at thecia.net>
To: tigers at autox.team.net 
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 2:35 PM
Subject: [Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature
 
Just something to think about.

While I was attending the Reno United this year, someone, whose Tiger knowledge
I respect, pointed out that maybe we in the Tiger hobby should stop referring
the Tiger v.2 as a Tiger 1A, because Rootes never used that nomenclature in
any of their publications. For the brochures, they just used Sunbeam Tiger (or
Sunbeam Alpine V8 for Euro cars)to cover both I and IA, and MK II for, well,
Mark II's. The parts catalogs seemed to use Mark I and Mark II, and ocassionally
the VIN prefix (B947, B382,etc).

This person suggested instead to use the VIN prefix(i.e. 'I've got a B382, or
'I've got a B947'.

What does the group think?
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