Ole,
I have forwarded my e-mail I sent to Jay on William Carrrol's comments
about Ken Miles Tiger. It was number 1 made, but number 2 ordered, he
built it in less than a week! I knew Ken personally in the 1950's, but
hadn't seen him since 1959.
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Steve Laifman < Find out what is most >
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> Jay,
>
> William Carrol says, "In March of 1963 Ken picked up a green Alpine
> demonstrator (later it was painted Candy Apple Red) and drove it
> home...." "There he prepared to drop a Ford 260-V8, with two-speed
> automatic transmission, into the Alpine chassis"---in less than a
> week."...."In addition to Ken's charge of $800 for repowering...there
> was an additiohnal $400 for candy-apple red paint on the green Alpine.
> He continues that the wire wheels were unable to take the torque and
> were replaced by "mags. He goes on to say that the car was wholesaled
> to Hungerford's British Motor Cars in Escondido in 1965 and sold to a
> San Diego resident (a doctor). It was soon "hot-rodded" by later owners
> and super-wide tires in "opened" rear wheel wells, then "driven into the
> ground". " By 1978 it was reported to have gone as junk but no one was
> really sure of its end. The hulk was said to be rusting in any one of
> three different locations, and my search failed...".
>
> Maybe Elvis has it, or is it the same red car that Don Adams used?
>
> BTW, Carroll's car was white.
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