Just when I thought Minilites mignt be the way to go..
Geez, guess you are not going to want to rotate your tires.
Would those be old original Minilites or new production ones?
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Boynton" <jimboynton@attbi.com>
To: "Tigers" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:55 AM
Subject: real tiger
> At 09:09 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, CoolVT@aol.com wrote:
>
> >...I doubt anyone will ever ask if your Tiger is real."
>
> Drove the Tiger into a local alignment shop yesterday to get the wheels
> balanced again. One of the mechanics turned around and looked at the Tiger
> and said "you got the right engine in that car?" I was there over an hour
> and had to crack the hood 4 different times for customers dropping by who
> wanted to see the engine. One fellow went and got his brother out of the
> car, "I told you that car had a V-8 in it."
>
> It was of those Ma/Pa shops owned by the Dad in the 50's and now run by
the
> son since 1967. Frank spend over an hour on the 4 wheels (I was getting
> steering vibration at around 60). He said most of the newer wheels have
self
> centering rings on them but these minlites didn't and he had to removed
and
> remounted and removed and remounted again and again to get each wheel
> centered and balanced on the hub.
>
> The first time a shop just removed them and threw them on a balancing
> machine. Wrong. Frank did all work with the wheels on the car. What a
> discovery to find these old times mechanics in small local shops who know
> what they're doing. The Tiger accelerates through the 70's without a shake
> now.
>
> Jim
>
> PS I was stopped for gas last week and 3 motorcycles pulled in on the
other
> side of the pumps. Shortly they came wandering over and one asked me if I
> could open the hood. He said he told his buddies that there was a V-8 in
the
> car but they didn't believe him. The car simply gets lots of attention in
> N.H. where there are many Tigers around.
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