Jay Laifman writes:
>I am pretty sure I recall that in the conversation it was
>added that the car was in fact provided by a local Rootes dealer (the
>country was identified, I can't recall which one) and that country's
>dealers would only have received low compression Alpines. I do not have my
>books at work to tell you what that would add to the VIN Rex describes
>above.
Right Jay. Chris McGovern's book says that the low compression engines were
marked with an "L." immediately after the VIN #, and just before the three
letter VIN suffix. If a Series II car had a low compression engine, it
might read like this: B91xxxxx L. RRX . Similarly, the later Alpine GT
models had "G.T." after the VIN# and before the suffix. 'Hope this clears
things up.
Rex Funk
-----Original Message-----
From: <Jay_Laifman(at)countrywide.com>
To: alpines(at)autox.team.net <alpines(at)autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, September 25, 1998 8:16 AM
Subject: Alpine, Sunbeam Alpine
>Rex writes:
>
>>The vin number would have been between B9100001 and B91119956 and probably
>>"RRX", with color #53. [SNIP]
>>Given the use of Rootes products, I suspect that these vehicles were on
>loan
>>to the production from a local Rootes dealer near the shoot (Jamaica?).
>
>Years ago (1992?) there was a short thread on this car along with other
>Alpine movies. >
>Jay
>
>
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