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Re: Luggage rack

To: MWood24020@aol.com
Subject: Re: Luggage rack
From: comorgan@juno.com
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:24:46 -0700
Great response Mike.  I have hauled my Tiger around for over 25 years
without driving it.  It has become a family  possession which my kids
will fight over who "gets it when I'm gone."  And, yet it's not that
"special" as far as a performance car.  In fack it's dangerous if pushed
to the limits with a high horse power engine.  Why is it so "special?"  I
think that part of the reason is the timing of when it was introduced,
ie, muscle car era.  I began driving in the early 50's.  Cars were real
dogs.  The most exiciting thing was to drop a big V8 into a normally
sedate car.  My best friend's father was a doctor who drove chrysler's. 
My friend swapped engines from his dad's car (hemi's) into 1946-50
Plymouths.  this was an exciting time (the cars were loud but were
installed behind 3 speed transmissions.  Anyway, the best car was a car
which had a V8 installed.  So, the Sunbeam Tiger met this imagery.  I had
heard about the Tiger in the early 60's.  I was in collage, and I saw a
"cherry" Tiger on a Tucson street for $1300 (it was painted the most
subdued color, Moonstone.)  Moonstone is not white, not blue, and not
exactly grey either. I drove the car all over, including Arizona desert
roads.  I stopped driving the car in 1973.  Over the years it has
deteriorated badly.  I now want to get this car running.  But I agree
with you that , from one point of view, the car is not that "special." 
But somehow I can't get rid of it.  Thanks for listening.

Cliff

COMORGAN@JUNO.COM

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