nicholsj@oakwood.org wrote:
> Having a car built by Jensen is no insult to me. After all, they built
>the
> first Volvo P1800 sports car, Austin Healy, their own line of cars,
> Tiger and the Jensen Healy(maybe I should have left the last one out).
> As far as Alpine to Tiger conversions go, I think there is more
> commonality with an Alpine then not. The Tiger didn't start out as a
> new, clean design but was a modification of an existing car design,
> the Alpine. If it wasn't a modification, you wouldn't have all those
> people making bogus Tigers with relative ease and the spare part
> situation would be a lot worse. Could this conversion question be a
> case of semantics? You know what I mean, I say potato, you say
> potahto?(or potatoe if you are Dan Quayle).
>
> Jeff
Jeff,
Don't know when to take you seriously, or believe you are just "kidding around"
to
see what response you get. Firstly, I have replied to your implication that you
were not demeaned when I stated that I disagreed that most Tiger owners would
sneer
at a conversion.
Second, you come around with this last statement. Again, I don't know if you
mean
it, or not. If you follow your logical conclusion, since General Motors shares
components amongst all their product lines, and Chevrolets and Oldsmobiles,
Oldsmobiles and Buicks, Buicks and Cadillacs have all been built on the same
assembly line at one time or another, depending upon model. The cars actually
were
on the same line, in a row. I've seen them. But, when a Buick came by, they put
a
Buick engine, hood, etc. in it, and the same for the Cadillac, where the parts
were
different. By no stretch of the imagination can an individual undo this process
and
change a Buick into a Cadillac from the junk yard. It is illegal, immoral, and
fraudulent, unless he never tried to imply or register his result as anything
but
the CHASSIS he started out with.
No one has ever argued that repairing a Tiger with Alpine parts changes the car
to
a Non-Tiger, no matter how much you infer it. Many have taken issue with an
Alpine
being "converted" to a Tiger with scavanged parts and being called a Tiger.
This is
fraud. Calling it an Alger means it is an honest personal expression, and to be
admired, not critized.
I am sure you cannot misunderstand the basic, unwavering fact that to be a
Tiger,
it has to have been a Tiger. Don't give me a bunch of bull about prototypes, Le
Mans Cars, etc. They are not, and never have been an issue.
If you take a stand you are just joking about, at least put a few {;-> faces
in it
so we know you are kidding. If you are kidding, you can't be offended by those
who
disagree with your "joke". If you are serious, you should not be offended
because
someone disagrees with you.
You make ludicrous statements about "the ease of modification" being license to
steal. If Xerox made the perfect copier and you could make $100 bills so good
that
even the Treasury couldn't tell, it would still be counterfeit, and illegal. It
is
statements like those I've highlighted that make me wonder about your agenda.
Still willing to listen to reasons, but don't be offended if your misstatements
are
pointed out, hopefully with reason and not vitriol.
Steve
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