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when you still had panels available thru dealers you could not buy tiger specific wimgs. if one had to be replaced, the dealer only had alpine panels available. you had to drill the trim mounting holes to make it a tiger panel. the same applied to most replacement panels except for the tunnel and in...

did the tiger start out as an alpine body or did pressed steel set up an entirely different section of manufacturing facilities to build a body shell that would only be used for the tiger? yes, the MK2 had no battery box opening but it doesn't sound feasable financially to have two lines since produ...

michael is one of several that need to see both tiger and alpine shells in a bare metal state so they might fully understand the mods done to the alpine shell to make a tiger. i have noticed over the years that the welds on the alpine body seem to be consistant where the jenson/tiger welds appear to...

it appears that the tac folks are starting to answer the question many have asked for many years. how far can you go to repair a tiger and also how do you repair it and with what? how much of the nose will be an alpine? are they saying keep as much as you can of the bulkhead and front inner fenders ...

i have heard that this may have been done at one time. they sectioned the front in the same manner. they say it's still a tiger.

for what it's worth, if you go to the CAT website , you will find a MK 2 tiger that is for sale in california. it has been cut in half from side to side under the seats and a series 5 alpine back half was welded on. they show the welded seam in one photo. it has a front clip from a late model for re...

contact bill blue on the SAOCA site. he makes up a kit to mount the switch on the pedal.

these belong to the shop that does my work. he built these many years ago.they secure the body by the front crossmember bolts and the top holes for the rear shocks. they are in sections that bolt together.he has square ones and also octagon shape. one person can roll them . there have been many tige...

go to my photobucket site and look at the early on photos of my car. you'll see several photos of the car in a rack that allows it to be held solid yet be rolled 360 degrees without it tipping. http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/tt142/65beam/

the grease gun was included with the tools of the alpine up to B9101330. after that it was no longer in the kit. for awhile after the owners manual had a note pasted in the owners manual stating that the grease gun was no longer included.

go to the saoca website and there is a section showing the alpine tool kits. i believe the tiger kit had an extra wrench. the tire valve stem removal tool for the later series alpines and for the tiger was a small yellow plastic tool that would be very easy to break so they may have gotten thrown aw...

suni 1 was a great event as were the other four. we have attended all five suni's. there have been some great cars at the suni's and some have been rather unique. it was a treat to show my red lemans alongside the harrington tiger at suni 2. i wonder where that tiger is today. i know one owner here ...

didn't the original owner of this car ( peter ???? ) also build a similar car that was painted gold? the photo shown looks to be one i took at SUNI 1 and i think one of my photos also shows the gold car parked beside it.

martin, you just have to understand that i drove my first sunbeam before i was old enough to legally have driver license. we had to be 16 to have license. i'm now 62. i've driven many alpines and several tigers along with many other marques since then. i remember when tigers sold cheap. they were ju...

dude. i do know a few things about sunbeams. i do know the differences between a tiger and an alpine. now as far as telling who has a rebody, why should i? as i have clearly said before, whatever an owner does with his car is the owners business. these are chunks of iron that can be built the way th...