----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Eshelman" <RussE@Firstva.com>
To: "Louis & Laila" <bwana@c2i2.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 6:37 AM
Subject: Re: series IV
> Lou, 7 series I's !!That should probably be about half of the surviving
> series I's left in the whole world ! :-) I have 4, actually it is more
> like 1 and 3/4 and 2 parts cars. I dug out a picture of a series IVa that
a
> friend owns, B94l04027, square corner hood. It is fun and interesting to
dig
> this kind of information out.
> Russ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Louis & Laila" <bwana@c2i2.com>
> To: "Russ Eshelman" <RussE@Firstva.com>; <alpines@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 11:06 AM
> Subject: Re: series IV
>
>
> > Russ, you are probably right. I had never seen the actual info, but I
knew
> > that there was a conversion during the Tiger lines, and for a short
> period,
> > a few months, they made what they called "crossover bodies". I have one
of
> > these cars. It is different than the later MkIa tigers in that it has a
> > steel converable top cover, rather than the vinyl one of later fame. I
was
> > told that they were 4a cars, but had never seen one. Which means
nothing,
> of
> > course, because I had never seen a series 1 till a few years back, then
I
> > bought about 7 of them! Lou
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Russ Eshelman" <RussE@Firstva.com>
> > To: <alpines@autox.team.net>; "Louis & Laila" <bwana@c2i2.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 7:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: series IV
> >
> >
> > > My B9410133 is round corner. You must have access to some info that
I
> > > haven't seen yet. My info indicates that of the 12,400 series IV's
> > > produced, 4,500 were IVa's. Square corner hoods didn't start showing
up
> > > until around B9410322, approximately 1,500 from the end of production
of
> > > series IV's. But I don't have any info on the CKD units, B945----
and
> > > B946----, maybe that is where the difference is.
> > > Russ
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Louis & Laila" <bwana@c2i2.com>
> > > To: "Russ Eshelman" <RussE@Firstva.com>; <alpines@autox.team.net>
> > > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 8:15 AM
> > > Subject: Re: series IV
> > >
> > >
> > > > True. to a certain extent. They started ccutting costs in the middle
> of
> > > > production. They made another 5 thousand series 4's with the square
> > > corners,
> > > > so it wasn't a case of left over stuff getting used up. The
> > transmissions
> > > > changed at this time also.
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Russ Eshelman" <RussE@Firstva.com>
> > > > To: <alpines@autox.team.net>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 4:02 PM
> > > > Subject: Re : series IVtimes also.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Don't want to pass up a chance to show "my" ignorance, I thought
> > B940's
> > > > > were IV's with non-synchro tranny and B941's were IVa's with all
> > synchro
> > > > > tranny. I also thought Square corner / round corner mix was to
use
> > what
> > > > > ever was left over while in transition to series V square corners?
> > > > > Russ
> > > > > -
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