The black dashes were used in the early Tiger's. The exact number is in
question. I have had 2 early Tigers--one vin# 254 which I still own and it
has an original black dash, another Tiger that was stolen in 1980 vin# 263
and it also had an original black dash. TBON states the black dash stopped
somewhere around vin# 256---which leads to the statement "The exact number
is in question".
But we don't really know what the Tiger builders did at Rootes. They may
have sent out a number of Tigers with wood dashes, discovered they had one
black dash left and put it on a Tiger out of order. We have seen stranger
things than that show up on these Tigers when trying to figure out when and
why they did something to the cars.
If your vin# is before 263--it could have an original black dash and if you
want to keep it original----don't give up the dash. If your vin# is larger
than 264---it is probably a transplanted dash from an Alpine.
John
Message: 3
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:08:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Peter L <laurin212@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Mk 1 for Sale
To: Tiger List <tigers@autox.team.net>,
"tigers-bounces@autox.team.net" <tigers-bounces@autox.team.net>, Dan
Fitzgerald <tigerdan@cavtel.net>, awtiger@cox.net
Message-ID: <870637.51036.qm@web53606.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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whats the story on black dashes? was gonna swap mine out for a walnut one
tomorrow, maybe i should hold off, figured the black wasnt original, maybe
it
was?
--- On Fri, 7/9/10, awtiger@cox.net <awtiger@cox.net> wrote:
271.1.1/2989 - Release Date: 07/08/10 23:36:00
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