I have not done any TAC bashing, hope no one has taken it as so. I have only
tried to ask a few simple questions (may have gotten kind of wordy) to get
people to think. First some background, I have a real tiger body (I hope) very
little rust so this whole discusion realy doesn't apply to me.
I think TAC certification would be OK, if they published what they inspected.
I don't have a problem with a 3 person comittee passing judgement on my car.
But as any jurry goes I should get a published list of the rules first.
This is NOT about...
-original rivets
-someones integrety
-anything personal
This is about...
-saving tigers
-what is legeal
-what parts does a tiger have to have to still be a tiger
So if switching vins is illegal.
-Why aren't those people buying MG body shells being arrested?
And is it still an MG?
Or is it that it doesn't matter because there were so
many made?
-Why is it that almost any clasic/antique car mag I pick up talking
about someone doing a complete rebuild of the car, replacing
everything, and still calling it the same car, and it is
still worth millions?
The way I see it a tiger lies somewhere between the first and last of these
restoration choices purely based on produciton numbers (this is what makes a
car a collector).
Maybe lets ask the question a different way... This tiger is completely rusted
out so I replaced everything in front of the fire wall. However after that I
replaced everything behind the fire wall, so now my tiger is solid and safe.
Or the other guy who says I took the firewall out of my tiger and put it in an
alpine body and still call it a tiger.
Who did a rebodie?
Who restored a tiger?
Again is anyone who goes to all this trouble doing it for profit, or to save a
tiger? (think about how much it would cost in terms of labor and parts, then
the value of a tiger) I don't think there is a need to question there
integrity. So if they aren't doing it for profit, then why keep the TAC
inspection points a secret?
-obvioulsy I don't care if someone rebodies a Tiger if it is
done right. (others do it all the time, and still
call ***insert marque here*** original)
-what if I get carried away in my rebuild and break a few welds,
weld something solid instead of with spot welds. Take
the dash completely out and rewire everything slightly
different? Fix something I thought was broke.
WHAT IF I SCREW MYSELF? (sure some people would like to
see that at this point).
My last words on this debate, some people see things different.
dan
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