GBM was (and still is) the Isle of Man, although it's not often seen (since its
part of Great Britain).
With a name like that, Marcus may well be one of the Tiger owners in Germany -
not a current Swiss owner. And the format of the number plate suggests Germany
- two separate groups of alpha characters followed by numeric, in which case the
M will mean Munich - which supports the German bit.
And while I've been typing this, my other half has looked at Cat's Whiskers 54
(STOC mag) which has an article about the 1997 Manx Classic (annual classic race
in the Isle of Man) with a picture of "Markus Steininger from Germany [powering]
round Governors Bridge" in a dark green Tiger (with white hard top and bonnet).
Number plate not discernable in picture.
So, that's the origin of the car and driver - and GBM country identifier.
For more info on cars' origins, check out
http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/where/where.htm.
Enjoy Bombay - it's unique.
Colin Mills
"Olson, Mark W" wrote:
> All,
>
> Lo and behold, I hit the Dubai channel, (United Arab Emirates, audio in
> Arabic) and there was a British Racing Green Tiger pulling out of a
> driveway. I just watched a ten minute segment (8:00 to 8:10pm, Aug 25,
> Bombay time), dubbed in Arabic, about a classic Sunbeam Tiger owned by a
> Marcus Steininger. His car had a white oval sticker with the letters "GBM".
> I don't know what country that is. His tag number was M CN6018 (or it might
> have been M CN6081 as I sometimes have lesdixia.)
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