>Anyway, I now live in Colorado and last spring I saw a 1963 Alpine in the
>paper. I went, looked, saw and fell in love with her body, again. This
>Alpine turned out to be a GT and was very original, but falling apart from
sun
>and weather. There had been nothing and I say nothing done to the car
that
>would bring suspicion to anything being "not original."
>The question is this: On the drivers side "Alpine" script in the same (or
>very close) chrome script is the letters "500." It flows off of the
Alpine
>script to read "Alpine-500." The paint under the script is faded the same
as
>the rest and the installation was done like factory.
>Has anyone ever seen this before? Was this a dealer ad-on just for fun or
>what? Should I put it back during restoration?
First congratulations on the purchase. I too am a proud owner of a SIII
GT. There is a SIII registry that you should be sure to list your car on.
Let Scott know at Scott.Christie(at)gecapital.com. You can find a list of the
SIII's (without owner's names) at sunbeamalpine.com.
As to the Alpine-500, I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb here in
saying that is NOT factory. I believe it was Ian Gerrard who put a badge
on a Tiger of his that had a big "V8" symbol. I can't remember if it was
the very first Tiger, or a Tiger that was campaigned in racing. I do know
that others copied it. But, it was not "500." This badge might also have
been used in Europe for the "Alpine-V8." But, I'm not sure.
I would be interested to know why that was done. I presume they did not
shrink the engine to 500cc. I also presume there is no 500 cu in engine
under the hood.
Lastly, note that you posted your inquiry to the Tiger group, and I have
copied it to the Alpine group. There are plenty of cross-listers. But, I
thought I'd point out that there are more than one that you might want to
join.
Jay
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