This issue has gone around (and around) before on this list. From what I
remember of the previous bunch of posts of various TAC people from about a
year ago, the "bottom line" of what is and what isn't a Tiger turned out to
be pretty liberal:
1) 'Almost' any Alpine-generic or Tiger-unique areas of the car can be
replaced and still be considered a Tiger. Bonnet, boot, front clip, rear
clip, front crossmember, X-frame member, frame rails, floor pan sections,
etc.., you name it.
2) There's no cumulative scoresheet to separate Tigers from pretenders based
on the percentage of replaced metal or parts.
3) The "bottom line" as I remember it is that if you have, at a minimum, a
Tiger firewall connected to a large enough hunk of the scuttle plate to hold
the VIN tags down with the original rivets, then you've got yourself a
genuine Tiger. It may be one damn ugly Tiger, but its a Tiger
never-the-less.
Everything else you might have on a more complete car - correct welds on the
stay-tube braces, correct battery cable hole in the trunk, exhaust routing,
etc...., is just icing on the cake.
My 2 cents.
Dick Sanders
Seattle
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