[Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature

[steve wick]

I believe it was available until 1969. Steve (in N. Idaho)
 > Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:46:02 -0700
> From: gswaybright at yahoo.com
> To: twotigers at verizon.net; tigers at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature
>
> Wasn't a front bench seat a 64-1/2 only option?
>
> Stephen
> ________________________________
>  From: Kirk Smith <twotigers at verizon.net>
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> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 6:38 PM
> Subject: Re:
> [Tigers] Tiger 1A nomenclature
>
> 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-----
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> 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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