This is a tough one.
On a car with a separate body and chassis, the chasis is the car from a
legal and collector car status. Lots of Ferrari's have had their bodies
changed over the years. They remain Ferrari's, they don't become fakes or
clones or reproductions. They are serial # xxxxx "rebodied" Sometimes the
body that was removed gets put on a reproduction frame. That car does not
become a real Ferrari. It is a "bitsa" A car made from a bitsa this and a
bitsa that.
On a unibody car like the Tiger, there is no separate chassis. The whole
thing "IS the car"
There is a whole philosophical debate that we can and have had about how
much of that unibody can be replaced and still be a Tiger. I don't want to
have that discussion again. :)
So I will argue that replacing the entire unibody of a Tiger with a newly
made article will mean the end of the Tiger and the start of a new car.
Erich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Waybright" <gswaybright@yahoo.com>
To: <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 3:21 PM
Subject: RE: new MGB body shell
> So how would we view it, if a complete brand new Tiger body shell was
> available for restoration with the same restrictions that Theo outlines
> below on the MGBs? Say for example if Rob Martel offered the complete
> Tiger body shell.
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