[Tigers] Shelby Obits

[michael king]

Jay,

The miles prototype showed up in a CA dealers a while back.. was sprooked
for a while at about 90K.. went to ebay a few times without selling...
think they still have it. investment motor cars.

http://www.investmentmotorcars.net/inventory/detail/65tiger/detail.htm
On 16 May 2012 09:01, <jay.laifman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, but Ken Miles pedigree is nothing to slouch about. I remember
> something like 20 years ago one of the guys on this list bought it. He
> owned a number of Ford derived sports cars - lots of rare ones. For some
> reason, he always credited me for finding the car for him. I honestly don't
> remember what I did to help. And sadly I know he passed away.  So i'll
> never know. Where is that car now?
>
> Jay
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Waybright <gswaybright at yahoo.com>
> Sender: tigers-bounces at autox.team.netDate: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:27:47
> To: Randy Zimmermann<zimme008 at yahoo.com>; tigers at autox.team.net<
> tigers at autox.team.net>
> Reply-To: Stephen Waybright <gswaybright at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Shelby Obits
>
> Yes, Ken Miles did do an extremely crude proof of concept that couldn't
> even
> pass as an bad "Alger" if done  today (auto tranny, recirculating ball
> steering). I'd consider the George Baskoff car to be a much more refined
> effort, but still just a proof of concept. There weren't design drawings or
> engineering testing results from that activity. Jensen did the real
> design/development engineering work for Rootes based on the concept from
> Shelby.
>
> Maybe semantics, but it's my assessment as a mechanical engineer with
> most my career in product development and engineering.
>
> Stephen Waybright
> ________________________________
>  From: Randy Zimmermann <zimme008 at yahoo.com>
> To: "tigers at autox.team.net" <tigers at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15,
> 2012 1:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Shelby Obits
>
> I'm far, far from an expert
> on the Tiger's history but from my reading of the
> Robson and Carroll's
> versions, the hot rod Alpine was a product of Ken Miles
> individual efforts in
> his home garage while the Shelby American team (under
> the direction of George
> Boskoff) produced the more "refined" V8 Alpine that
> was sent to England to
> guide Tiger production at Jensen.
>
>
> Ken delivered his
> prototype faster and
> it was used for the infamous Billy Rootes test drive in
> L.A.  The Shelby
> American version took longer but produced a more
> sophisticated design and,
> thus, was the model forwarded to England.
>
> R.I.P.
> Carroll Shelby
>
> It will be
> interesting to follow what happens to the red Tiger
> that was part of his
> collection and could be seen in the background of the
> interviews Carroll gave
> not too long ago for the Shelby-themed Barrett-Jackson
> auctions.
>
>
> Randy Z.
> Duluth, MN
> 1967 Tiger MkIa
> ________________________________
>
>
> On 5/15/12,
> Stephen Waybright
> <gswaybright at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> > "As much as I like the
> Shelby connection
> with Tigers (and love the Tiger), it really was
> > limited to
> a one-off hot rod
> Alpine, proof of concept car... the real production
> >
> engineering was done by
> Jensen and I've never heard that Shelby had any
> >
> direct engagement with
> Rootes Group / Sunbeam corporate management. "
> >
> >
> Stephen Waybright
> >
> >
> >
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Michael King