I guess my question is why anyone would want to do all of those things to a
Tiger? Moving the battery forward and altering the spare to vertical are not
going to do anything positive to the balance of the car.
Some questions that come to mind when I read the ad:
If the advertiser knew that the speedometer had been replaced why does he say
that the mileage is exactly what is on the odometer? He says in his
descricption that he is not sure that the 66805 is the real mileage. Sounds to
me that if he has the "original speedo", ands it's not in the car than he knows
that 66805 is not the original mileage.
What does he mean by saying that the rack and pinion is not in the car? Is
there a Tiger crossmember in the car, or has that been removed for owner
convenience as well?
Who knows whether it's the real thing or not.
Even if it is there is a lot of work to be done if you want to get it back the
way it should be. If you are content with a tiger that has been this modified
why not buy a nice V8 conversion and skip the 25 large that it would cost to
get this one home?
'Course then there's that shiny red convertible in the spring thing.
Caveat emptor.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Witt [mailto:wittsend@jps.net]
Sent: Thu 6/3/2004 1:14 AM
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Cc:
Subject: Re: Tiger EBay (digging deep and looking close)
For whatever it's worth I took the picture showing the rear bottom
side of
the car into Photoshop, enlarged it and increased the brightness. I was
able
to see the dual "pass-unders" and both (sets of) the original style
exhaust
mounts. I was NOT able to tell if they looked "retrofitted" or not.
Given
the current exhaust system you are left to wonder (unless they really
knew
how to fake it) why they would go to the trouble to create something
they
weren't going to use.
I also did the same with the picture of the trunk. I can't make out
what
it is that is mounted near the original battery ground mount (battery or
fuel shut-off???), but the hole for the fuel pump vent seems to be
there.
Assuming the battery is in the standard Alpine location it would be
interesting to see how it was installed. I doubt one would go to the
trouble
to spot weld one in where it supposedly wasn't (anyone want to ask the
guy
for a close up?).
It's not my call as to what it really is, just my observations.
Tom Witt
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