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Re: [Tigers] Are This a Tiger?

To: Tom Parker <tkparker1941@gmail.com>,Dave Munroe <dave@munroe.ca>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Are This a Tiger?
From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:46:21 -0400
At 06:53 PM 6/4/2010, Tom Parker wrote:
 > "How can that be if the car is a TACed MkII Tiger?  Is what you
 >are saying that the car is a fraud (Alger)?"
 >
 >They all have it. Tigers are, simply put, Alpines modified at the plant.
 >I've had my Mark 2 since 1976 and just recently discovered the Alpine
 >exhaust hole. But it's been hiding there in plain sight since I bought the
 >car and I've been around and under the car more often than I care to admit.

Am I missing something?  I had thought that the
production Tiger bodies were all made by Jensen,
a totally separate company, before being sent to
Rootes for the final touches such as the power train.  Is this wrong?

Marc


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