[Tigers] This one may be a goner!

[Buck Trippel]

Mike,

It's a bit worse than the listing shows!

I just got home from a drive up to Buttonwillow to look at that Tiger. While 
I was there, an Alpine owner named Ron from Bakersfield also stopped in to 
eyeball the action.

I'd talked to the owner last week and he told me the hit he took was hard 
enough to convince him that any future races will never again be in a 
convertible.

The front suspension/crossmember is so mangled that I could not find a 
single useable piece, including spindles and control arms. The passenger 
side firewall is crushed so badly that its height is about 8 inches 
different than the driver's side. The exhaust pass through heights seem to 
be about 3-1/2" different. Both doors are shot. The passenger side "A" post 
is a mess. I don't think there's anything forward of the firewall that 
survived the crash in useable condition. And I'm not sure how useable the 
firewall is. Also, It'll need a right side quarter panel.

There were a bunch of boxes piled inside the car so it was hard to inspect 
the upholstery much less inspect under the dash. The steering column might 
be OK. No one knows the condition (bent? or broken?) of the rear end.

I think whoever titled this thread, "This one may be a goner!" ...was quite 
the optimist.

Buck Trippel


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From: <MWood24020 at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] This one may be a goner!


>I don't know, but there seems to be a bunch of really good parts on that 
>car
> and it is, possibly, just an Alpine front clip away from being a Tiger
> driver...glad the driver was OK...built "Sunbeam Tough"...
>
> Mike
>