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To: "National Corporation (E-mail)" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Subject: inquiry 081699b
From: "Wright, Larry" <larry.wright@usop.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 07:43:29 -0400
Tim Beloney wrote:
>Has anyone out there ever made headrests to go onto 
>Series 5 style seats?  If so how did you do it?  I was 
>planning on putting them on the roll bar, but I think I'd 
>rather have them on the seat so the seats can fold forward 
>and everything will be protected with a t-cover.  The 
>plan is to integrate speakers as well.
>PS, I know I could have gotten other seats with headrests, 
>but I want to stay somewhat with the original seat style. 

I think headrests built in to the seats would look too non-period and
not appropriate on a Tiger unless you were doing the ground-effects
package and billet wheels too. :^) However, I recall seeing in stores
and catalogs, when I was a kid, accessory headrests for cars not so
equipped. They were cylindrical, and rather big; say 5" diameter by a
foot long, covered in vinyl. They had two metal "forks" sticking down so
that one tine one each side went ahead of the seatback, and one ahead;
the forks looked like a lower-case "h".  No permanent attachment, and
I'd definitely think about padding the contact surfaces to protect the
seats. Something like that might be neat on a car of our age, if you
could find or fabricate them. Myself, I'm more leaning towards the
headrests built in to the roll bar.

Mark Meswarb wrote:
>I need to get a helmet to take my Tiger on the open track.  
>Anyone have agood source for an SA90 or better.  Prefer 
>something a little more exciting than plain white.  Did anyone 
>see the helmet worn by Pikabo Street (sp?)during the winter 
>olympics.  Now those graphics would be perfect.

I recently saw a Tiger-related site (Tiger Auto Service?) "sponsored" by
a company that did graphics on race helmets. Yeah, Ms. Street's helmet
might've been a high point of the Olympics.

Lawrence R. Wright
Purchasing Analyst
Andrews Office Products Div. of USOP
larry.wright@usop.com (new)
Ph. 301.386.7923  Fx. 301.386.5333


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