[Tigers] Tag on Tiger on BAT

Thu Feb 20 15:46:54 MST 2025

My MK1A was titled as 66/67.  I called it a '67 until I learned better.

Will - 382001570
Tigers at embarqmail.com

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM Cheers, Mark the Great via Tigers <
tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

> RE dating. I've mentioned this before. A local bank was financing MG's and
> Heley's for a local dealer.  At the end of the Sept. ( or thereabouts ) the
> dealer would change all the in stock inventory to the next model year. The
> bank was notified and it would also change the model year for the inventory
> they had financed. Thus, with a stroke of a pen, the new models had
> arrived.
> I'm guessing something similar happened with the Tigers.
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> In a message dated 2/20/2025 10:17:48 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> tigers at autox.team.net writes:
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> On Friday, August 16, 2024 at 02:50:20 PM PDT, Theo Smit <tsmit at shaw.ca>
> wrote:
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> The last mk1A was B382002706 and it was built right at the end of
>  December 1966. They had already started Mk2 production at that point (in
> September? I forget, offhand) and those last 12 Mk1A were probably bodies
> that had gotten put to the side when they needed to get the Mk2 production
> going. Then someone realized that those bodies represented sunk cost and
> finishing them would put cash on the table.
> Anyway, the ‘2400 range of Mk1A production was early enough in the year
> that some of them could have been shipped to the US and sold before the end
> of 1966.
> Cheers,
> Theo
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> On Aug 16, 2024, at 2:45 PM, Stu <sabre2tgr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Another data point:  According to TBON, my Tiger was assembled in the late
> summer of '66.  It was first sold in NY in Feb of '67, so it has always
> been registered as a '67.
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> Stu
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> On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 4:06 PM Will Seay via Tigers <
> tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> My MK1A is registered in VA as 1966/67.  This characterization probably
> came from the dealer.  It was common back then to give a foreign car the
> benefit of the doubt when registering, assuming that the same car model
> would be produced the next year.  In my case this was clearly an error
> because the MKII, introduced in '67, was not the same car as was produced
> in '66.
>
> Will - 382001570
> Tigers at embarqmail.com
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> On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 1:56 PM D or G at sbc via Tigers <
> tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> Yes, the Calif. DMV did, or still does, go by the registration date. Have
> a 1942 Jeep that stated it was 1950.
>
> David Franchi
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> On Friday, August 16, 2024 at 08:48:43 AM PDT, Ron Fraser <
> rfraser at bluefrog.com> wrote:
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> 1st – no idea on the brass tag – one would think it should have something
> stamped on it.
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> Drmayf
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> Yes the vin tag is near the end of the MK 1A Tigers build.
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> I have been told that back in the day Tigers had registration dates
> according to year they were 1st register in the states not by the year
> the Tiger was built.
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> Ron Fraser
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> *From:* Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> *On Behalf Of *Larry
> Mayfield
> *Sent:* Friday, August 16, 2024 9:53 AM
> *To:* 'Jay Laifman' <jay.laifman at gmail.com>; 'Tiger's Den' <
> tigers at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Tigers] Tag on Tiger on BAT
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> I don’t know about the tag on the fuel line, but the date the car is
> advertised as a 1966 does not go with the vin number.  The B382 is  for a
> Mk 1A is it not? Rivets look OEM also.  My 1966 (registered in Ventura CA
> in 1966 as it was sold new and the vin on it is B9471136 and I am the
> second owner having purchased it used in Santa Maria, Ca in Jan 1967 second
> hand (yeah, have owned my car since then never changed hands and has always
> been registered).  This car also has the long shifter as well which I think
> does go with vin number, But somebody smarter than me could check that out.
> .
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> Interesting that a small brass tag can generate some curiosity, eh?
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> Drmayf aka Lawrence
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> *From:* Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net
> <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net>] *On Behalf Of *Jay Laifman
> *Sent:* Friday, August 16, 2024 6:22 AM
> *To:* Tiger's Den <tigers at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* [Tigers] Tag on Tiger on BAT
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> Watching the Tiger on BAT?  The owner says it had a brass tag on the fuel
> line from new and he and his dad have never known what it was.  Anyone know?
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> https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-sunbeam-tiger-50-2/
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