>
> Howdy Everyone:
> Since there seems to be some interest, here's my one cent's worth.
>
> The person I bought my now unfortunately ex-66 Tiger from said that he
> had bought it from Don Adams and gave me a copy of the California title
> showing it registered to Don Adams/C.O. his production company. I have
> no way of knowing if the story is true but some interesting facts did
> come up after I bought it, which I'll recount later.
>
> This was not a "show" car but in fact was given to Don by the production
> company as a "bonus" when the show was doing very well. He used it as
> his personal transportation and then eventually sold it to the buyer I
> bought it from. An interesting bit is that an earlier writer had said
> they understood Don's daughter wrecked the car once or twice. Well, when
> I got in a smack up in it myself, the body shop that repaired it said it
> had plenty of bondo in it from the previous owner. It was expensive
> repairing all that stuff! I wonder if that bondo came from an Adams
> family accident.
>
> Before I sold the car, I ran into (figuratively, not literally) a girl
> and for some forgotten reason (!!!????!!) started talking about cars.
> Seemed her ex-boss used to drive a Sunbeam Tiger and she described a
> couple of quirks to his particular car. Turns out those quirks were also
> exactly the same as on my car and her ex-boss turned out to have been
> Don Adams (she had worked for his production company). Anyway, she
> looked at my car very carefully and said she was sure it had been his
> car.
>
> Financial need forced me to sell my car a few years back but not before
> I had dumped THOUSANDS $$$$ into it, including air conditioning. I
> remember driving to a Tigers United in Lake Tahoe. It was very hot, with
> Tiger heat being added on the drive up the mountain. As we pulled into
> the hotel, several Tigerers who had just arrived before us were falling
> out of their cars, ready to pass out from the heat. We drove up with our
> hardtop on, our windows rolled up, the A/C blasting cool air and sat
> there at idle for a couple of minutes while the uninformed (and real
> hot) stared at us like we were Aliens from the planet Sunbeam!
>
> How's that for originality? (I did try to do the AC in the passenger
> compartment like I imagined the factory would have done it). However,
> anyone lucky enough to see Tiger Tom's air conditioned Tiger in
> Pennsylvania will see an even cleaner AC install than mine was. Tom
> built a center console that is real clean and DOES look exactly like a
> factory setup.
>
> For those who find such things interesting, here's the ID# of my ex-car:
> B382002219. I sold it to someone in central California who I understand
> has compeletely re-done the car. It would be interesting to see it with
>another
multi-thousand dollar infusion in it!
>
> Steve Sage
> Torrance, California
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