I once found a Tiger in a shop close to me here in southern IL. I was waiting
to talk to someone about an Alpine back against the fence row. The car had its
hood up, had a Tiger VIN but had Alpine in place of Tiger on the outside, it
was complete, including outside stainless. Everything I could find said it was
a real Tiger. I had someone try to steal my Tiger in Cabondale, IL once (home
of southern IL. university)- they had cut the wires on the ignition switch-
glad they didn't know the easy way to start a Tiger or I would have had more
problems than twisting some wires together to get home- I'm sure the kids that
where standing around behind my date and I where the culprits but that was
many years before video cameras. The Tiger marked Alpine was about 7 miles
west of Carbondale and perhaps the Alpine chrome was to deter would be
thieves. As for the 26 k for a Tiger, I think a Tiger in good to excellent
condition can bring 30 easily. I'm curious what
1 part at a time would net a person on epay? IF you buy a rough Tiger and
have Doug Jennings restore(prior to retirement) it, by the time you pay for
his labor you will be knocking on over 20k and thats if the dipper didn't eat
to many holes into the body/frame. Material is outrageous and paint must have
gold blended into each gallon and there is still all the little things like
brakes and steering, the front suspension needing rebuilt and on and on. Soon
your investment is over the 26K mark and does a person ever stop finding new
items to make improvements. I have a want list that goes over or close to 10K
w/ me doing all the labor, except building the striker engine and I think I
could do that if I had the blue prints from someone elses build card.
TtT
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