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Re: TAC... or Tipine Alger Confusion

To: <SLaifman@SoCal.RR.com>
Subject: Re: TAC... or Tipine Alger Confusion
From: "tjordan" <tjordan@wagnerprocess.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:04:55 -0700
Steve,

Do you own a copy of the Book of Norman?  Has a wealth of information on
Sunbeam Tigers and also has an older version of the Tiger Registry.  May be
beneficial to even the "experts".

tjj
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Laifman <SLaifman@SoCal.RR.com>
To: Tom Witt <wittsend@jps.net>
Cc: <tigers@autox.team.net>; tjordan <tjordan@wagnerprocess.com>; Norman
Miller <rootes1@earthlink.net>; Sage, Steve (CAT) <SSage@SoCal.RR.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: TAC... or Tipine Alger Confusion


> Tom Witt wrote:
> > snip----------->
> > The three "featured prominently" cars (less
> > those in the ad section) are the Harrington, the Demer RHD and the
Ulrich
> > Mark II.
> >   Am I getting close. I am guessing here at the risk of great insult to
> > others. However, I am implying no guilt to any party.  Regardless, I see
no
> > value to posing the question without finding the benificial answer. And
the
> > winne..... ah --- loser is ??? Tom Witt B9470101
>
> Tom,
>
> Bill Van Velkinburg is prominently featured in the STOA issue received
> today on Tigers United XXV, and took SEcond Place in the Stock Class
> Concours with the one and only Harrington Tiger ever made. If the
> "featured prominently" Harrington was NOT his blue Harrington, it was an
> Alpine.  There was some idiot who converted a pair of extremely rare
> "last of the Harrington" Alpines into bad reproductions of a Tiger,
> demolishing their value. Of course there are very nice authentic
> Harrington Alpines, as well.
>
> So, does that leave us with two suspects?
>
> BTW: for those who did not read the results, Rob Guerra (and Jennifer)
> won the Lord Rootes Cup. I have a very nice picture of him finishing it
> off after filling it with Jack Daniels. He also tied for first in the
> rally, second in personalized class Auto-X, (and so did Jen!) first in
> Personalized Concours, first in popular vote. And now that all this
> effort is behind him, about to write some great articles for
> TigersUnited.com. Who better to hear from than a Winner. (BTW: Dan
> Walters won the Quiz and was second in Modified Auto-X, Bill Van
> Velkinburg won the Howie Schoenfeld award). They had 10 of previous Lord
> Rootes award winners all lined up. What class.
>
> Last, but not least, is the award for volunteering for the thankless
> task of concours judging the functional testing of those verdampte Lucas
> Electrics - Steve and Jane Sage. That takes a lot of guts and is the
> most yelled at judging in an event.
>
> Steve
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