[Tigers] Are This a Tiger?

[Tom Parker]

Take a look under the hood. Do you see the fixtures in the frame just behind
the Tiger's engine mount brackets? Those are for the Alpine engine. Crawl
under and look just behind the engine bell housing at the frame again. Those
square fixtures with the holes drilled in them ( and the slag not ground off
from the cuts...) are Alpine; I think they were the transmission mounts, cut
away to make room for the Ford Toploader transmission.

There are things on the Tiger that're Tiger specific (and the T.A.C. guys
know what they are), but the body assembly started off as an Alpine. I'll
leave it to the folks who know to say when and how it happened; I only know
it happened.

Tom

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Marc James Small
<marcsmall at comcast.net>wrote:

> At 06:53 PM 6/4/2010, Tom Parker wrote:
> > "How can that be if the car is a TACed MkII Tiger?  Is what you
> >are saying that the car is a fraud (Alger)?"
> >
> >They all have it. Tigers are, simply put, Alpines modified at the plant.
> >I've had my Mark 2 since 1976 and just recently discovered the Alpine
> >exhaust hole. But it's been hiding there in plain sight since I bought the
> >car and I've been around and under the car more often than I care to
> admit.
>
> Am I missing something?  I had thought that the production Tiger bodies
> were all made by Jensen, a totally separate company, before being sent to
> Rootes for the final touches such as the power train.  Is this wrong?
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall at aya.yale.edu
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