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Re: [Tigers] paint code 19

To: Jim Sencindiver <jd.sencindiver@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] paint code 19
From: allanballard@att.net
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 10:58:08 -0400
Wow that's cool!

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Jim Sencindiver <jd.sencindiver@gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently was given a Sunbeam price list from 1965.
>
> I had my Tiger at a car show on Monday in downtown Fredericksburg, VA (I
> know, a British car on Independence Day!) and a guy walks up and we start
> talking about Tigers.  He's always wanted one, but no luck.  He tells me
> that he has some Sunbeam documentation and that a "real Tiger owner" should
> have it.  So I gave him my address and thought no more about it.  Wednesday
> morning he dropped off the package while I was at work.  OMG!  Inside a
> Sunbeam Manilla mail folder (with $0.12 postage!) is a spotless 1965 color
> Tiger tri-fold, a Sunbeam Competition and Performance Parts bi-fold, a
> Sunbeam price sheet, a 4 page color folder of Sunbeam optional
> accessories, a "Tale of the Tiger," and  reprints (by Sunbeam) of Tiger
> reviews from various magazines!
>
> The guy called me to make sure that I got it and I thanked him profusely.
>
> Keep on Tigering!
>
> Jim Sencindiver
>
> B382100451/TAC 448
> http://www.tigersunited.com/car_show/sencindiver_j/default.asp
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:05 AM, michael king
<michael.s.king@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Tony.. back in the 60's you could buy the whole tiger brand new for
>> under 4K!! and a set of LAt wheels for $48 and a LAt hood for 135! so
>> 200 for painting a whole car was probably even cheap then!
>>
>> " Its funny how much it cost to paint a
>> car at todays prices and in the mid 60s for $200 you could get a top of
the
>> line paint job- well in my memory, which often fails the older I get. I
>> often
>> think I have beginning stages of oldtimers before I reach 60."
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Michael King
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