Looks like the 1/4 mile e.t. was 12.84 @ 108 or 128 mph. Fuzzy photo.
Michael Shortt
On Sep 15, 2013 10:08 PM, "michael@michaelshortt.com" <
michaelsavga@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have that info as well as photos of the car at my office, I will post
> tomorrow.
>
> Michael Shortt
> On Sep 15, 2013 10:04 PM, "Taylor, Matthew" <MTaylor@ea.com> wrote:
>
>> For the record, which is vague, Gordon became a nation record holder
>> sometime
>> in 1965 (at the latest, this was August 1965) and held the record, with
>> faster
>> and faster times until at least sometime in 1967. Who knows, doubtful,
>> but
>> his record may have held for a year or two after that. Regardless, I'd
>> say it
>> was closer to 3 years than 2. The class he was in, in the AHRA, was XFA
>> or
>> Foreign Sports. As the AHRA and the media did not report much on the
>> slower
>> classes, especially after 1966, I have not even been able to verify the
>> time
>> that is published in the older Tiger publications, where that happened, or
>> when.
>>
>> If anyone has any info on the car, I'm still researching.
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>>
>> On Behalf Of Thomas Witt
>>
>> As an example: "and for two years [what two years?] it was the American
>> Hot
>> Rod Association's national record holder over a quarter-mile drag strip
>> [this
>> reads as if the Tiger was the fastest car - ever - in the quarter mile
>> during
>> the undisclosed time period. There should be a reference to the specific
>> class the car held the record in].
>>
>> And, yes, Mr. Corbett does NOT sound like the type of chap that would sit
>> down
>> for a spot of tea and muse about the accuracy of Tiger information.
>>
>> Tom
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