I have Alpine VIN B395004498. My is titled (tag receipt) as a 1967. Most
Alpines were probably titled as whatever model year was current when they
were sold, not necessarily when they were manufactured.
Tom Hill
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-alpines@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-alpines@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Ian Spencer
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 8:46 PM
To: Chris Avery; alpines@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: VIN #
Chris,
Your car was built during the week of 8/15-8/19 1966. There were 313
SV's built during that week between serial numbers B395009280 &
B395009592. It's common to buy these cars titled as a later year. It was
probably sold in 1967 and titled as such. - Ian
Chris Avery wrote:
>
> I have a sunbeam alpine. I was told that it was a 1967series 5 .
> My vin # is B 395009343 and there were 19122 series 5's manufactured
between
> Sept/65 and Jan/68 that is about 660 cars per month in the 29 months of
> production.
> This puts my cars month of manufacture as Nov/66.
> that assumes that the first month of manufacture was Sept/65 and the last
> month was Jan/68 and there were almost 660 units produced in each month.
> perhaps a stretch, but it's the math. so do I own a "66" OR A "67"?
> MANUFACTURED IN "66" sold as a "67" model? these days they manufacture the
> 2002 model in Y2K! so a left over is really a left over.
--
Ian Spencer <www.sunbeamalpine.org>
'61 Series II Alpine B9104704 LRX
'61 Harrington Alpine B9104782 OD HRO
'62 Harrington Le Mans BH9115930 OD LRX
'62 Harrington Le Mans BH9116754 OD LRX
'62 Harrington Le Mans BH9117497 OD LRX
'64 Series IV Automatic B9401426 BW LRX
'67 Series V Alpine B395016967 LRX
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