Identify
your car and its engine from the information below. It
is necessary to know your car's series number to order
the correct parts. Alpine chassis #'s and engine numbers
are the same when the car was manufactured but will be
different if the engine has been changed. If your engine
does not have one of the numbers below, it may have an
engine from a Rapier, a Hillman or other Rootes car or
may be out of some other make of car.
Your chassis # is stamped onto a plate near the hood latch
panel on the body of the car and the engine # on an Alpine
is stamped into a machined area behind the fuel pump.
Tiger engine numbers are not the same as chassis numbers.
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Vintage Alpine II parked on a Kansas street in 1974
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Your Chassis Number |
Series
or Mark # |
| Your
Engine # (Alpine) |
Engine
Series # (Alpine) |
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|
Alpine
Series |
Note |
Chassis
Numbers |
Dates |
Total
Built |
| 1 |
. |
B9000001
to B9011904 |
Oct.59-Oct.60 |
11,904 |
| 2 |
. |
B9100001
to B9119956 |
Oct.60-Feb.63 |
19,956 |
| 3 |
. |
B9200001
to B9205863 |
Mar.63-Jan.64 |
5,863 |
| 4 |
(A) |
B9400001
to B9407936 |
Jan.64-Sep.65 |
7,936 |
| . | (B) |
B94100001
to B94104470 |
. |
4,470 |
| 5 |
. |
B395000001
to B395019122 |
Sep.65-Jan.68 |
19,122 |
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Tiger
Mark |
Note |
Chassis
Numbers |
Dates |
Total
Built |
| I |
. |
B9470001
to B9473762 |
Jun.64-Aug.65 |
3,762 |
| I-A |
(C) |
B382000001
to B382002706 |
Aug.65-Sep.66 |
2,706 |
| II |
(D) |
B382100001
to B382100633 |
Des.66-Jun.67 |
536 |
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| Notes: |
A |
Series IV with non-synchro first transmission
& 8" clutch. |
| . |
B |
Series
IV with all-synchro transmission & 7-1/2"
clutch. |
| . |
C |
No
Tigers were designated by Rootes as MK IA cars.
This term has arisen to describeTigers built on
Alpine V type bodies with the vinyl conv. top
boot instead of metal covers. |
| . |
D |
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 B382100100 which
carries a JAL number, the first of the MK II series.
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|
Chassis
# Letter Suffixes
| GT |
Gran
Turismo, ie. hardtop & tonneau only, no softop,
upgraded interior |
| OD |
Overdrive
transmission |
| BW |
Borg
Warner automatic transmission |
Thefirst letter
of the final combination indicates:
| H |
Home
market (England) |
| R |
Right
hand drive export |
| L |
Left
hand drive export |
Thesecond
letter indicates:
The
third letter indicates:
| O |
Standard |
| X |
Non-standard |
| P |
Police
specification |
On
Tigers, the final pair of letters are: FE - Ford Engine
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Using
the above codes, we see that a Alpine with the #B9204567
GT OD/LRX is an Alpine S.III Gran Turismo (hardtop only),
overdrive, left hand drive roadster of non-standard specifications.
A Tiger with the #B382001527HROFE is a right hand drive
car made for the English market and is a roadster of standard
specifications with ford engine #1599 E22KS and colour
code #86, forest green. |
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