Theo,
Has anybody ever cataloged all the comments said about Tigers at car shows?
I've heard some real great fish stories, beyond the usual 'Poor Man's Cobra"
(D'oh!), or I owned one with a factory Chrysler 283. I think if you counted the
number of cars everybody claimed to have owned over the years, you'd swear
there was
at least 30,000 of these cars made!
I own a couple of old english motorbikes. At shows people are always coming up
with
stories of ownership, usually crashing them. Seems like the minimum speed on a
Bonneville was 90 mph when one got into trouble, and "laying the bike down" was
the
preferred way of saving one's life or limbs.
It would make a great club newsletter article if someone could compile these
Tiger
stories.
Peter S.
B9471799
Theo Smit wrote:
> Well, not exactly...
>
> Last Saturday (the 19th) the Alberta Mustang Auto Club hosted their 17th
>annual
> show 'n shine at Franklin mall here in Calgary. The weather was perfect, so I
> headed down to the mall to get a large dose of sunshine and tall tales. It
> turned out that at a Mustang meet they lump anything non-Mustang into a
>'Special
> Interest' group; I just had to figure out if my car fit into "Stock" or
> "Modified" categories. I chose Stock, since I figured anything that I could
>pass
> off as a LAT option wouldn't count as a modification. In retrospect, I
>probably
> should have stuck it in the Modified category, judging by the number of times
>I
> answered the question "Is that the stock engine?" with "No, it came with a
>260",
> and also considering the other cars in the class, listed in the order they
>were
> parked:
>
> Stock:
> Shelby Cobra 427 Mk IV
> Ford GT40 Mk III
> me
> 1968 T-bird luxo-barge
> 1958 retractable hardtop, in full working order (I cannot imagine trying to
>get
> all of that stuff to work and not turn the roof into a pretzel)
> ... Another seven examples of '60s Ford iron
>
> Modified:
> Falcon convertible with a 289.
> Dodge D-50 pickup with a 5.0 in it.
> Western Motorsports Cobra replicar with a 5.0.
>
> Oh yeah, there were another 85 or so Mustangs ranging from '64 coupes to '99
> convertibles, with everything good, bad, and ugly inbetween.
>
> All in all it was an enjoyable time, and I did snag fourth in class in the
> people's choice voting.
> Most Popular Question: "I guess it goes pretty good, eh?"
> Worst Sales Pitch: "Yeah, I remember these things from when I was roadracing.
> Used to go by this Tiger like he was standin' still, 'cause I had my Mini
>built
> to like 300 psi compression, an' it would do 100 mph in first gear, and spin
>my
> 8" wide slicks going into second, yeah!" (goes on for another five minutes or
> so)" ...So, anyway, I do classic car appraisal. I've done lots of cars. Here's
> my card. Blah, blah, blah,...."
> Best Sales Pitch: "Here's my card. I do plastic blasting." (On my judging
> walkabout later I find out he's got a few demo panels set up on a table)
>
> Next year we'll get a few more Tigers out to this thing, and show people
>what's
> what.
>
> Theo Smit
> tsmit@novatel.ca
> B382002705
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