[Tigers] stock wheels

[Marc James Small]

At 06:45 PM 10/16/2008, garywinblad at comcast.net wrote:
>You guys might be correct about the part number but...
>
>When this Alpine wheel vs. Tiger wheel thing first surfaced on this list
over
>ten years ago, I had a very original 1966 SV
>Alger (!?) sitting in my garage next to
>my very original 1964 MkI Tiger.  I don't know
>about the thickness of the center
>section but it was obvious that the shape of the lug "well" or raised
dimpled
>section around the lug nut was VERY different between the Alpine wheel and
>the Tiger wheel.  Before I compared them I
>thought Alpine and Tiger wheels were
>the same but not now!  Maybe the parts list REPLACEMENT number for an
>Alpine is the Tiger wheel...?

Gary

1214930 wheels were the ONLY wheels used on the
Minx V and VI.  The Minx V was introduced in the
UK in late 1963, about six months or so before
the first Tiger appeared.  I would suggest that
someone had retrofitted earlier wheels to your
Alpine.  Of course, this might have happened at
the factory:  Rootes, by that point, was dying,
and so used up parts on hand.  That is why the
Alpine V came from the factory with the
hand-crank bolt not fitted on the Alpine
IV:  someone found a couple of boxes of them in a
back store-room so, "let's use these up".

Marc



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