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Re: inquiry 121498a

To: tigers@Autox.Team.Net, lrw@aop.com
Subject: Re: inquiry 121498a
From: "Bill Lawrence" <billlawrence@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 07:49:58 PST


A friend sent me the PS page from a recent Road and Track.  The photo is 
of a person holding a tiger (a large cat on a chain leash) next to a 
Spritfire.  The caption reads "No sir, it's a Triumph, not a Sunbeam".

HBill Lawrence

>Bob Melusky wrote:
>*The Tiger made it into Barron's this weekend with a photo of the Tiger
>in
>*the on-line article as well as a mention in the list of top 
collectible
>*prospects in the under $10,000 class. The claim is that collectible
>cars
>*are on the move again.
>
>*Barron's on-line is a subscription service. I pasted some of the info
>*below, it did not format well.
>
>Well, now we know where this Keith Martin guy hangs out when he's not
>writing for AutoWeek.
>
>Steve Laifman wrote:
>*Doesn't Rover Land Cruiser even get an 'honorable mention'.  They were
>*building vehicles like this, without the Buick V-8, during the W.W.II,
>and
>*Africa is "teeming' with pre-war 'shooting brakes'.
>
>Steve, ya gotta send documentation of that to the Land Rover page on
>team.net; they have the introduction date listed as 1948. Perhaps by
>spelling it "FAQ" it doesn't have to be "fact"; straighten them out!
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