There is some consistent confusion about this car and a couple of
specific errors
in this piece.
First, there were, indeed, as everyone knows, two prototypes. However,
only one
made the trip to the factory, that being the Shelby prototype, which was the
more highly developed car.
Secondly, although a minor error, the horsepower of the stock engine is 164,
not 166 as stated in the article.
But, more disappointing is the perpetuation of the confusion between
this car
and the three competition cars fielded by the Rootes factory at the 1964 24
hour race at Le Mans. These three competition cars were built by Lister with
engines by Shelby. These cars, since they ran at Le Mans, are commonly
known as the Le Mans Tigers or, alternatively, Lister Tigers. Their
bodies were
fastbacks, in order to improve the aerodynamics (i. e. top speed). The
car being
auctioned by RM is emphatically NOT one of the Lister/Le Mans Tigers. The
confusion comes from two sources. The first is that the RM car is also a
fastback,
like the Lister/Le Mans Tigers, but that does not make it a Lister/Le
Mans Tiger.
Secondly, the RM car was built by Harrington, as mentioned in the
article, not Lister.
Harrington had built a number of fastback conversions of the Alpine and
one of
those cars had run at the Le Mans Twenty-Four race and had won the
"Index of
Thermal Efficiency". As a result of their success, the Harrington Alpine
Coupes
were known as "Le Mans Coupes". But, again, the Harrington Tiger (of
which there
is only one) never ran at Le Mans and was never referred to by that name by
Harrington.
The history of the Harrington Tiger can be found at:
http://www.harringtonalpine.org/index.php?categoryid=99
An article about the Lister/Le Mans Tigers by Alex Gabbard can be found
in the December issue
of /Rootes Review/, the monthly publication of Tigers East/Alpines East
of which I am the editor.
Cheers,
Tod Brown
B382002384LRXFE
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