i don't know why i'm allowing myself to be dragged into this debate -
but... i think the originally thing is more of a american fettish.
in the uk, far more 'LBC's, as you call them, are either unrestored
and 'fairly' original by nature of the fact that not much has been
changed or are happily 'improved'. its always been like this - anyone
racing their cars (traditionally at hillclimbs) would almost certainly
be doing modifications.
personally, while i appreciate people keeping originality alive, i'd
be far happier to live with a modified car myself.
On 8/9/07, Jeffrey Nichols <jxnichols@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> "the modification to the body shell made by hammer-wielding employees at
> Jensen. "
>
>
> Damn, this story never dies. No one at Jensen ever pounded the body shell of
> a Tiger by a hammer. Jensen was too professional a business to let loose
> workers with hammers wacking at 7,000+ cars for a major auto manufacturer.
> The firewall was a die pressing. Check it out, you shouldn't see hammer marks
> unless a DPO did it.
>
>
>
> I am amazed to here all of the complaining about the value of the Tiger.
> > I searched for quite a while and finally found a rough but complete
> > tiger, after about $25,000, countless hours I now have a complete 66
> > Tiger with the #'s matching drive train steel wheels and dog dish hub
> > caps. Do you think the 289 Cobra would be worth $500,000 with a 5 speed,
> > 4 wheel discs and a built 302?
>
> I'm saying this in the full realization that a car owner can do whatever he
> wants to his car but the fact that so many Tigers are modified way beyond the
> LAT options, in my humble opinion, affects the perceived value of a Sunbeam
> Tiger. Just about every British car show I go to has very few modified cars.
> As a matter of fact, most owners go to great lengths to keep their car
> "factory original". Just about every example of a Tiger I see in a magazine
> is modified/customized beyond what was available by Rootes back in the day. I
> try to keep mine as close to stock as possible because its rare to see a stock
> Tiger.
>
>
> There is one owner in Ann Arbor who, to her credit, drives her original 289
> Cobra to car shows. I told her I was suprised to see a real Cobra at any show
> given how expensive they are. She replied that it is just car and she was't
> worried about damaging it. He also said that when it not being driven its
> parked next to her original 427 Cobra in the garage. I have seen the 289 on
> local roads occasionally but not the 427.
>
>
>
>
>
> Jeff
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