[Tigers] MkII VINs

[Tom Parker]

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.

Tom
'67 Mark 2.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Tod Brown <todbrown at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Tom:
>
> 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.
>
> Tod
>
>
>
>
> On 7/16/2016 9:49 AM, Tom Parker wrote:
>
> Ron,
>
> 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,,
>
> Tom
> '67 Mark 2
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Tod Brown via Tigers <
> <tigers at autox.team.net>tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> Actually, there were two MkII's assembled by Rootes before production
>> was turned
>> over to Jensen. They carry serial numbers B382100001 and B382100002 but
>> no JAL
>> numbers. The Jensen run began with B382100100 and ended with ...633. See
>> the
>> note in the SS Catalog:
>>
>> MARK II PRODUCTION NUMBERS VARY. CARS WITH
>> SERIAL # B382100001
>> AND #B382100002 EXIST WITH NO JAL #’S (JENSEN ALPINE LTD. BODY #)
>> WHICH INDICATES THE CARS WERE COMPLETELY ASSEMBLED BY ROOTES,
>> NEVER GOING TO THE JENSEN PLANT AND MUST HAVE BEEN A PRE-
>> PRODUCTION PILOT CARS. THE NEXT MK II IS B382100
>> 100 WHICH CARRIES
>> A JAL NUMBER, THE FIRST OF THE MK II SERIES.
>>
>> There were also six (IIRC) MkIA's fitted with the MkII mechanicals (289
>> block, wide-
>> ratio trans, modified Watts linkage, etc.) but were badged as MkIA's at
>> the end of
>> the MkIA run at Jensen.
>>
>> Tod Brown
>> B382002384LRXFE
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