[Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature

[michael king]

I have to agree.. in the alpine community you have the SIVa alpines,,, the
alpines that gained the square corner bonnet and doors 9as with later MKI
Tigers) and also gained an all syncro transmisson. While calling by VIN
would not be a bad idea asthere was a noticable chane in numbering the MKI
"a" is a quick way of reffering to the variation in the MKI production.

On 16 September 2012 05:43, Stephen Waybright <gswaybright at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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>
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> 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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Michael King