since you asked for comments...sounds awesome but too good to be true, please
send links to pics, and please dont say it will be for sale but tied up in
nigerian customs until the wire clears... (sorry, the new yorker in me)
--- marden@mistral.co.uk wrote:
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> Hi to all my Tiger friends across the pond. Here is a good question!
> I have just been lucky enough to obtain what I think is a very rare
> car, but what is it. The car started out in its life as 1962
> Harrington Alpine Le Mans but its third owner happened to be a
> certain Mr. John Horsman who had been in charge of the Aston Martin
> Race Programme and by this time was working with John Wyer as co
> founder and director of the famous GULF RACING TEAM (GT40, Porsche
> 917, Mirage, Le Mans etc., etc.). After a GT40 development visit by
> the Shelby/Ford guys a GT40 engine was left behind and John thought
> it a shame to waste it and knew it would fit because he'd seen the
> Tiger. The car was stripped and sent to his good friend Des O,dell
> back at the Rootes Competition workshop and was duly TIGERISED by
> Des/Rootes and returned to John at the FAV (Ford Advanced Vehicles)
> workshop where the GT40 team mechanics inserted the running gear. Hey
> Presto he had what I jokingly call a: SHELBY GULF SUNBEAM HARRINGTON
> LE MANS TIGER GT40 SPECIAL. It was used as a road going development
> car. The car was given to one of the mechanics after the GT40
> programme closed and he barn stored it for 36 years. I tracked it
> down and made an offer he couldn't refuse. It still has its original
> engine etc and the log book (title papers) still show the owners as
> GULF RACING RESEARCH. I realise it is a converted Alpine but so were
> the Le Mans Tigers. As the conversion was carried out at the Rootes
> comp dept. I think its more of a Tiger special than a fake. Norman
> has it in his book as a fake. Comments please. Martin
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