RE: Serial Number question

From: W. R. Gibbons (gibbons(at)northpole.med.uvm.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 20 1995 - 09:14:45 CST

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On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Bob Hamilton wrote:

> Ray,
>
> The LRX designates:
>
> L = left hand drive
> R = roadster
> X = export
>
> The R must be a hangover from when the were saloons and coupes.
> "Proper" Saloons had the designation LSX. My "proper" Alpine is LRX and the
> "proper" drophead coupe is a LCX - "C for Coupe.
>

Thanks Bob, and thanks to others who also identified the X as meaning
export. I'm sure I read it meant special equipment, but I'm not at all
sure where I read it. I will check. Maybe I dreamt it. "Proper" Alpine
indeed.

Ray

   Ray Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons(at)northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8910

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