The best part of Tiger ownership is that there seems to be little
groupthink when it comes to determining the "right" state of a given
Tiger, provided that the workmanship that got it to its current
condition is evident. Your Tiger can be a stock survivor, a personalized
cruiser, or a no-holds-barred track day car - you'll get compliments
from a lot of people even if they'd never consider what you did as an
example for their own car, so long as your car shows some pride of
ownership and it's not misrepresented.
And this is what appears to be the problem with at least several of the
current eBay crop. We have one car with known Alpine pedigree (it
appears to be gone now...), one VIN for a middle-production Mk1A Tiger
on a round-corner body, and a couple more asking top stock-survivor /
100 point restoration dollars, where the attention to detail is clearly
not there, either in the description or in the workmanship itself. It
has little to do with the color... but a seller can't claim "original
paint" on a red Tiger when the paint code on the VIN is 86. If the
seller is purposely deceiving the prospective buyers then that's fraud.
If they don't know, they shouldn't be writing up the feature sheet on
the car. Either way the value of the car goes way down, because the risk
is way higher.
Theo
Ross wrote:
> Wow,
>
> Which is worth more an original car un-restored with all its original parts
> in running condition? A resorted car with a warmed up motor in great
> condition but personalized? Or a totally restored to bone stock specs from
> the factory but using some after market parts?
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