Tod
If I read the BON correctly; your original engine date code should
be B19KC. Therefore any Tiger with an engine having a B19KC date code is
probably painted blue. This engine date code is first listed for a Tiger
built in September
1965. This also coincides with Ford changing engine color to Ford
Corporate Blue for the 1966 model year which occurred during the Summer of
1965.
All previous engines are most likely painted black and all engines
ordered after B19KC should be blue. Determining the first Tiger to receive
a B19KC engine code is harder. That information is not listed in TBON; so
if that Tiger still exits, the owner would have to chime in here with that
information.
Ron Fraser
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Theodore Brown
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:26 AM
To: Harry B. Elam
Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Transmission color
Harry:
I think what happened was that after Rootes ran out of the first allocation
of engines they had ordered from Ford, they must have ordered more. My
guess is that the first batch were painted black and the second,
blue. It's been my observation that cars with earlier numbers have black
engines and trannies and the later ones, blue. I don't know when the
changeover took place or if it was abrupt or a phased-in change. Maybe
Norm has some insight? Of course, I could be totally off the wall with
this. For the record, my Tiger, B382002384LRXFE (a late MkIA), born on
August 25, 1966, had its engine and gearbox painted blue.
Tod
At 06:55 PM 11/13/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Tod,
>My first Tiger, B382002021, came original with both transmission and
>engine painted blue. My current Tiger, B382000471, came original with both
>transmission and engine painted black.
>Harry Elam
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