Hi Group. As a follow-up to Tom Hall's email, we are having a TAC Instructors
school, and TACing of cars on September 29 & 30, in the Washington, DC area.
I assume this is the South East area, which we call the Mid Atlantic area.
Tom's from California, so no problem Tom.
Tom Hall is our Senior Inspector and Instructor, and we are looking for a good
turnout. If you have not responded to an email that I sent to the lists last
week, email me off line and I will get more details for you.
Interest is high, enthusiastic, and just about at the limit for attendees. We
have Tiger owners coming from as far as south as Florida, north to Boston, and
west to Pittsburgh, with their cars either on the train or driven here.
One of our supporters and attendees, Malcolm McDonald has titled this TACFest,
and it will be just that.
If you were on the fence about going, let me know now, before we get too
booked up and have to close this event to others interested owners.
This event is being put on by those in the area that are interested in
learning more about their cars and having them TACed. We will have the
Master, Tom Hall here for this event.
Need I say more.
Larry
Tom Hall wrote:
> At 09:44 PM 8/9/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >I would think that the TAC list (highest number I saw on Norm's website
> >was 0426) would give some starting point for estimating the number of
> >remaining Tigers. Do you think TAC's penetration is up to 30%? As far as
> >I know, of the dozen or so Tigers in Calgary, mine is the only one on
> >the TAC list. Also, Norm's registry data should lead to a pretty good
> >estimate.
> >
> >Theo
>
> I thought I'd use Theo's comments to make a few points. First,
> the TAC program identifies chassis shells not necessarily running
> cars. We've applied our serialized TAC Hallmark stickers to several
> chassis that were rusted out hulks or gutted shells that still contained
> sufficient indication that they were "Tigers". We do note these details in
> case they happen to show up again in another life form. The fact remains
> that the vast majority of the Tigers that have been authenticated are
> running cars.
>
> Second, the final number reported (426 at this point) contains
> some serialized certificate numbers that may not have been issued yet. The
> reason for this is the expansion of the program. Every new Senior
> Inspector outside the SF area has, or will have, blank certificate forms
> that they will be issuing in their area's. Larry Atkisson in Seattle, and
> Peter Thomson in Australia, already have these forms and are ready to
> operate independently in their respective regions.
>
> Finally, we are in process to train more Inspectors and Senior
> Inspectors this year. We're hoping to be able to announce new Senior
> Inspectors in the Los Angeles and South East regions in the near
> future. We are also hoping to be able to operate a TAC training and
> authentication operation at the TEAE United in St Louis. At this point,
> demand seems to be very light and we need to identify more individuals
> that will be attending this event and would like to be trained as TAC
> Inspectors and/or would like to have their Tigers authenticated. If you
> are interested in having TAC in St Louis, Please e-mail me and let me know
> before August 24th. I will have to make my decision to attend and possible
> reservations shortly thereafter, depending on your responces.
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