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To: Chris Thompson <chris@cthompson.net>,
Subject: Re: latest thread
From: 65Tiger@comcast.net
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:39:56 +0000
Chris, my story is soo similar,
I'm 49.  I bought my Tiger about 10 years ago (B9470844).  
Found my Tiger in Hemmings,
I met Rick and Norm, picked up TBON ($60)
since then, I've met many wonderful owners,

Curtis Fisher
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Chris Thompson <chris@cthompson.net> 

> I didn't see my initial response pop up on the list, so I probably 
> forgot to delete the trailer. 
> 
> I'm 49 (which seems to be about the average). I owned an Alpine at age 
> 17 - paid $400 for it. I couldn't afford a Tiger, and I still couldn't 
> really until about 10 years ago. I had been ineffectually poking around 
> for almost 25 years, though. Everything I occasionally found for sale 
> in my neck of the woods (SW VA) was far gone. About 10 years ago, I 
> left a few days early for a conference in San Francisco, and resolved to 
> find one while in the land of rust-free cars. Picked up a Hemmings 
> Motor News the day before I left and circled cars on the flight over. 
> 
> Long story, but I was lucky enough to get hooked up with Norm Miller and 
> Rick at Sunbeam Specialties, saw a buncha cars, and got a great one that 
> Norm had bought from drug dealer about to go to prison, finished, and 
> then resold to a feller in Hayward, CA. Picked up a TBON at SS, and 
> within three days I had bought the car and after reading TBON twice on 
> the flight back to VA knew more about Tigers than I had known in 30 
> years of just hearing about these rare and mythical beasts.... 
> 
> Hooking up with Norm, of course, was the best thing that happened for 
> me. The car I've caretaken since is very original, straight, and had 
> very few problems 'lo these many years. Thanks Norm! 
> 
> Chris 




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