>From your perspective, you have a valid point. Unfortunately, its what is
written in the race results and record books that counts. A Morgan won the
1966 ARRC E production race with second place, Porsche, and third place,
Porsche. I wonder how much factory support Morgan gave? Something to think
about.
Regards,
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Theo Smit" <theo.smit@dynastream.com>
To: <itswonderful@comcast.net>; <jxnichols@sbcglobal.net>;
<tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:19 PM
Subject: RE: Tiger sucess?
> IIRC from reading Taylor's book and others, the Tiger was reclassed to C
> Production (in 1967?) and all of the go-fast parts that Doane developed
for
> the Hollywood car (which were then homologated as dealer-installed LAT
> options) were disallowed. You can infer from that, that Doane and Jim
Adams,
> and subsequently Ron Dykes, were successful enough with their car to
attract
> the SCCA's and the competition's attention, without having enough factory
> backing to avoid being written out of competition.
>
> The Hollywood car was built and developed on something like a $40K
budget -
> a lot of money in 1965, but far less than what the other teams had behind
> them. In an absolute sense, you can say that the Tiger didn't amount to
much
> in the racing scene, but if you're looking at competition results vs.
amount
> of money spent and the amount of factory support, the Tiger made a pretty
> big impact.
>
> Best regards,
> Theo
|