[Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature

[e.coiner at cox.net]

Running short on windmills that need tilting at?
You might has well try to get people to stop calling early mustangs a 64.5.  Ford titled them as 65 so why should people call them 64.5?

Just because Rootes did not call them anything different, the significant change in the VIN indicates that Rootes thought something notable had changed.
Mk1a is as good a moniker for that difference as any.

Erich
---- rande <rande at thecia.net> wrote: 
> 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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