[Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature

[Kirk Smith]

I was having the heads done on my Tiger 20+ years ago...the guy doing the
machine work asked me if I wanted to sell the heads.  I asked him what was
so special about my 289 heads- he pointed out the '64 date stamped on them
and said 64 1/2 Mustang guys would kill for those heads on their
restorations.  I passed on the offer, but smile when I think about it!

-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of e.coiner at cox.net
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 1:28 PM
To: rande at thecia.net; tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature

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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