[Tigers] When Welds Go Bad

[Smit, Theo]

When grafting a front clip on, normal practice would dictate that you
don't put all your seams in a line, and use the factory panel seams
wherever possible.

Hitting anything at 15 mph shouldn't cause this kind of structural
damage regardless of the severity of the pothole. Maybe they
fiberglassed the fender halves together?

Theo

-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces+theo.smit=dynastream.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:tigers-bounces+theo.smit=dynastream.com at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Jeffrey Nichols
Sent: November 2, 2007 12:49 PM
To: tigers at autox.team.net
Subject: [Tigers] When Welds Go Bad

Ebay has a Tiger ( Item number: 140174893358)  that shows what can
happen when you piece a car togther.  I don't know if this is a Alger
but it looks like someone grafted on a Alpine front end to a chassis
without proper reinforcement.  The whole front end split off of the rest
of the car
after hitting a pothole according to the seller.    I always wondered
about
cars where you hear  a front or back end is grafted on to a chassis.  I
mean, how structually sound can can  the car be overall?  I guess this
answers that question.






                            Jeff
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