Maybe someone put an Alpine VIN on a stolen Tiger at some point in the past?
A.C. Tynes
New Orleans
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces+v8tracker=gmail.com@autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-
> bounces+v8tracker=gmail.com@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Cullen McCann
> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:18 PM
> To: tigers@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: [Tigers] yet another Alger on eBay..
>
> Comrades,
>
> eBay item number 140189086032
>
> This one is actually kinda confusing to me...seller calls it outright as
> an Alger....I'm glad he's representing it correctly...but if you look
> closely it has a Tiger engine bay. Maybe someone cut up a Tiger to put
> the bits on this Alpine...but its odd, usually I can spot the Alpine
> hidden beneath a Tiger cloak...someone put a lot of work into this car
> to look like a Tiger, at least from my limited knowledge. He doesn't
> provide suspension or undercarriage pics, but many of the areas on it
> look Tiger legit to me. Engine bay, inner fenders, firewall.... Also the
> alpine vin tag has non-factory rivets on it.
>
> I wonder if its ever happened that a guy actually had a Tiger, maybe he
> bought it without an engine and didn't know what he had, thought it was
> an Alpine, so put it together like an Alpine....then I guess later
> someone puts a sbf back in it...but all the time thought it was an
> Alpine...or someone put an Alpine Vin on a car so save money on
> insurance, and then sold it as such...
>
> nahh, that wouldn't happen. weird how many different ways people have
> put these cars back together.
>
> Cullen
> Oklahoma under a blanket of ice
> B382001452 LROFE
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