You've got it right except the parts swap happened when Alan Frasier had the
car. Bernard Unett was one of the development engineers with Rootes Group
on the Le Mans Tiger project. After the "embarrassment" at Le Mans the two
race cars never returned to the Competition Department; they went to the
Engineering Dept. where, according to Marcus Chambers, Bernard Unett was
"lent" 180B. He was the one responsible for notching the firewall for the
"proper" 289 with 48 IDAs, the 5-link rear suspension and campaigning the
car VERY successfully in the Redex Championship Series in 64/65. This was
the suspension (along with the front) that was taken out of my car and
supplied to the Monster Tiger at Alan Frasier Racing.
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Theo Smit" <theo.smit@dynastream.com>
To: "Bruce McGuire" <b_mcguire@sbcglobal.net>; "Sharon Mountjoy"
<mtjoy@telis.org>
Cc: "Tiger List" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 1:14 PM
Subject: RE: the Monterey Historics
> No idea, but didn't the Monster Tiger 'feature' some LeMans Tiger parts
> during its heyday in British sportscar racing, when it was being driven
> by Bernard Unett? Or am I getting my pedigrees mixed up?
>
> Theo
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Bruce McGuire
> Sent: June 27, 2003 2:10 PM
> To: Sharon Mountjoy
> Cc: Tiger List
> Subject: Re: the Monterey Historics
>
>
> So who has the Monster Tiger these days??
>
> Bruce
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sharon Mountjoy" <mtjoy@telis.org>
> To: <MWood24020@aol.com>; <tigers@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 7:02 AM
> Subject: Re: the Monterey Historics
>
>
> > Yes, I do feel it is very special to have my car accepted for the
> Historics.
> >
> > As a side bar, the moccason telegraph indicates there are five
> Tigers, of
> the
> > six that applied, accepted. Two are people who have been "the
> faithful"
> to
> > the powers that be and the event, but three of us are "new kids"...
> the
> > Monster Tiger, the Targa Florio Tiger and mine.
> >
> > With our run group, 7B, being a very popular group, what with the
> Cobras,
> > Shelbys and Corvettes, plus Ford being the honored marque this year, I
> > wouldn't want to have been in the position of making the selections.
> >
> > Darrell
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: MWood24020@aol.com
> > To: mtjoy@telis.org ; tigers@autox.team.net
> > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:38 AM
> > Subject: Re: the Monterey Historics
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 6/26/2003 9:57:36 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > mtjoy@telis.org writes:
> >
> >
> > We'll be taking our Le Mans Tiger to Monterey!
> >
> >
> > I have a really good idea of how difficult it can be to get the
> "powers
> that
> > be", or to be more concise, Earle, to accept any new
> participants/cars.
> Good
> > for you and Congratulations!
> > Regards
> > Mike Wood
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