Mine is the same as Stu's. It was a cable when my Dad had it. I switched
over to a rod. For the same reason.
On Jun 19, 2013 10:59 PM, "Stu Brennan" <stubrennan@comcast.net> wrote:
> My Mk1A, assembled sometime in the late summer of '66, has a rod
> release... because I installed it.
>
> I'd heard the horror stories about breaking cables, so at a United parts
> swap I saw a rod type release just laying there on a table, waiting for me.
> A few bucks later, I found it bolted right in, no mods required. So maybe
> somebody else did the same thing, and that's where it came from.
>
> Stu
>
> -----Original Message----- From: CoolVT@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:42 PM
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Tigers] Hood release
>
> Okay, a question/survey.............**some cars came with a cable to
> release
> the hood and others with a rod. I have heard that the MK1's came with a
> rod and everything after came with a cable.
> When I got my MK1A over 20 yrs. ago it came with a rod. It's hard to
> believe that the cable had been switched for a rod because just about
> nothing
> on the car had been changed. It was as original as you could find. On
> Ebay
> there is a rod for sale that is claimed to come from a MK1A..... Item
> #251292299850 .
> So, the question is, did anyone else have an original MK 1A or MK11 that
> came with a rod rather than a cable?
> Mark L
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