[Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 4, Issue 311

[Rick Graf]

I think they go later than that.  I'm the third owner of #304, which is 
largely unmolested, and it's got a black dash.



John Stithem wrote:

>The black dashes were used in the early Tiger's. The exact number is in
>question. I have had 2 early Tigers--one vin# 254 which I still own and it
>has an original black dash, another Tiger that was stolen in 1980 vin# 263
>and it also had an original black dash. TBON states the black dash stopped
>somewhere around vin# 256---which leads to the statement "The exact number
>is in question". 
>But we don't really know what the Tiger builders did at Rootes. They may
>have sent out a number of Tigers with wood dashes, discovered they had one
>black dash left and put it on a Tiger out of order. We have seen stranger
>things than that show up on these Tigers when trying to figure out when and
>why they did something to the cars.
>
>If your vin# is before 263--it could have an original black dash and if you
>want to keep it original----don't give up the dash. If your vin# is larger
>than 264---it is probably a transplanted dash from an Alpine.
>
>John
>
>
>
>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 13:08:09 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Peter L <laurin212 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Tigers] Mk 1 for Sale
>To: Tiger List <tigers at autox.team.net>,
>	"tigers-bounces at autox.team.net"	<tigers-bounces at autox.team.net>, Dan
>	Fitzgerald <tigerdan at cavtel.net>, 	awtiger at cox.net
>Message-ID: <870637.51036.qm at web53606.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>whats the story on black dashes?  was gonna swap mine out for a walnut one
>tomorrow, maybe i should hold off, figured the black wasnt original, maybe
>it
>was?
>
>--- On Fri, 7/9/10, awtiger at cox.net <awtiger at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>271.1.1/2989 - Release Date: 07/08/10 23:36:00
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