<div dir="ltr">All I know is mine was the 8th off the assembly line ACCORDING TO THE JAL TAG. What the implications are I do not know. I'm not a student of the marque, just the owner of an early Mark 2.<div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div>'67 Mark 2.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Tod Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:todbrown@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">todbrown@roadrunner.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Tom:<br>
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As I said in my previous email, 00001 and 00002 were assembled by
Rootes, not Jensen, and do not carry JAL tags, according to the
note in the SS catalog. In the pics I got for 00002, I could see
no JAL tag. Whether Jensen took into account 00001 and 00002 when
they began assigning JAL numbers to the cars they assembled, I
could not say. I have seen, in the past, many examples where
serial numbers and JAL numbers are not in sequence. My guess is
that Jensen was not at all careful with assigning JAL numbers as
they assembled the cars.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Tod</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 7/16/2016 9:49 AM, Tom Parker wrote:<br>
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<div>My JAL tag is 700008, my Serial Number is B382100105. If
the sequence is accurate the implication is Jensen built s/n's
B382100001 & 0002 in addition to 100 - 105. I'm assuming,
of course, that the JAL Tag shows the sequence of assembly AT
Jensen,,
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<div>'67 Mark 2</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Tod
Brown via Tigers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">Actually<font face="Arial">, there were
two MkII's assembled by Rootes before production was
turned <br>
<font face="Arial">over to Jensen. They carry serial
numbers B382100001 and B382100002 but no JAL<br>
<font face="Arial">numbers. The Jensen run began
with B382100100 and ended with ...633<font face="Arial">. See the<br>
<font face="Arial">note in the SS Catalog:<br>
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<div style="font-size:11.6px;font-family:sans-serif">MARK
II PRODUCTION NUMBERS VARY. CARS WITH</div>
<div style="font-size:11.6px;font-family:sans-serif">SERIAL
# B382100001 </div>
<div style="font-size:11.6px;font-family:sans-serif">AND
#B382100002 EXIST WITH NO JAL #’S (JENSEN ALPINE LTD.
BODY #) </div>
<div style="font-size:11.6px;font-family:sans-serif">WHICH
INDICATES THE CARS WERE COMPLETELY ASSEMBLED BY ROOTES,
</div>
<div style="font-size:11.6px;font-family:sans-serif">NEVER
GOING TO THE JENSEN PLANT AND MUST HAVE BEEN A PRE-</div>
<div style="font-size:11.6px;font-family:sans-serif">PRODUCTION
PILOT CARS. THE NEXT MK II IS B382100</div>
<div style="font-size:11.6px;font-family:sans-serif">100
WHICH CARRIES </div>
<div style="font-size:11.6px;font-family:sans-serif">A JAL
NUMBER, THE FIRST OF THE MK II SERIES.<br>
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<font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">There
were also six (IIRC)
MkIA<font face="Arial">'<font face="Arial">s f<font face="Arial">itted
with the MkII
mechanicals
(289 block,
wide-<br>
<font face="Arial">ratio
trans,
modified<font face="Arial">
Watts link<font face="Arial">age</font>,
etc<font face="Arial">.)
but were
badged as
MkIA's<font face="Arial">
at the end of<br>
<font face="Arial">the
MkIA run at
Jensen. <br>
<br>
<font face="Arial">Tod
Brown<br>
<font face="Arial">B382002384LRXFE<br>
<font face="Arial">TAC
864</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font>
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