IIRC from reading Taylor's book and others, the Tiger was reclassed to C
Production (in 1967?) and all of the go-fast parts that Doane developed for
the Hollywood car (which were then homologated as dealer-installed LAT
options) were disallowed. You can infer from that, that Doane and Jim Adams,
and subsequently Ron Dykes, were successful enough with their car to attract
the SCCA's and the competition's attention, without having enough factory
backing to avoid being written out of competition.
The Hollywood car was built and developed on something like a $40K budget -
a lot of money in 1965, but far less than what the other teams had behind
them. In an absolute sense, you can say that the Tiger didn't amount to much
in the racing scene, but if you're looking at competition results vs. amount
of money spent and the amount of factory support, the Tiger made a pretty
big impact.
Best regards,
Theo
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