I stand behind my original dash statement. Although the fact of the XVC cars has
me wondering about the early SI dash being black. I do believe that I read in the
SAOC Alpine guide that the early SI's had a black dash.
SI through SII had a silver dash.
Very late SII, built during the beginning of S3 production had black dashes.
Series IV and IV have black vinyl covered dashes.
I have owned and parted out well over 50 Alpines and still counting. I have only
seen Series I's with silver dashes. But, I believe there might be some truth to
the early ones being black. I've been looking through my material to see if I can
find where I may have seen this referenced. I could be wrong.
Alpdavegre(at)aol.com wrote:
> Okay Listers,
>
> Now I'll churn up the already muddy waters some more. I have 5 S1 Alpines,3
> have non-stock dash boards in them. Sues S1 B9005923LRX fully restored dash
> is silver it was silver when I started restoring it and had the paint color
> matched up by the NAPA paint store so I have that particular color match. The
> other S1 B9008060 has a black painted dash that appears to be a brownish
> color originally from the bakelite.
> Now for the monkey wrench to fowl things up some more. I have a S2
> B9110133LRX that has a black painted dash but under the gauge areas it shows
> to be silver! Now I know the dash could have been change in its life but
> doubtful.
>
> I for one would like to find out when the color change happened on the
> Alpines dashboard. There are little things that we all find out about on the
> Sunbeams that make it an even more interesting car to talk about. I for one
> enjoy it all!!!
>
> Dave Green 5 S1s,1 S2, 2 S4s, 2 S5s, 1 Mk 1 Tiger(keeps me broke restoring
> it)!
> Tucson, Az.
-- Ian Spencer <www.sunbeamalpine.org> '61 Harrington Alpine B9104782 OD HRO '62 Harrington Le Mans BH9115930 OD LRX
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