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Re: [Tigers] CT Tiger - past owner identified

To: "genepadgett@comcast.net" <genepadgett@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] CT Tiger - past owner identified
From: Owain Lloyd <owain.lloyd@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 22:32:45 -0400
Cc: "tigers@autox.team.net" <tigers@autox.team.net>
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Yep.  My dec 65 built tiger is registered 67 too.

Pretty cool you bought it new.  How many owners still own a tiger they
bought new I wonder.  What a story.

On Saturday, July 26, 2014, <genepadgett@comcast.net> wrote:

> Jerry, it seems to have been pretty common practice back in the 60's to
> register the car year as the year it was sold. I bought my Mark IA new from
> a dealer in October 1967 and it was registered as a 1967 model. I have
> heard similar stories from other Tiger owners over the years.
>
> Gene
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Jerry Mo Christopherson" <JCMC2006@suddenlink.net <javascript:;>>
> To: "snakebit289" <snakebit289@yahoo.com <javascript:;>>,
> tigers@autox.team.net <javascript:;>
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 3:26:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] CT Tiger - past owner identified
>
> I noticed that this particular Tiger was built on the same date as mine
> (April 1,1965), however it was registered as a 1966 model, where mine is
> 1965, can someone enlighten me?
>
> Jerry Christopherson
> 9473187
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net <javascript:;>] On
> Behalf Of snakebit289
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2014 6:20 AM
> To: tigers@autox.team.net <javascript:;>
> Subject: [Tigers] CT Tiger - past owner identified
>
> Shelby-Powered Tiger Leads this Euro Rally Lineup | Petrolicious
>
> Some of you
> remembers this video from, maybe, two months ago. I found out tonight that
> the Tiger is the same car that once belonged to a friend of mine and Al
> Johnsons that I first saw and photographed 22 or more years ago, I just
> didn't recognize it from the video. From Rhode Island, it was shipped to
> South Africa to our friends brother, who apparently sold it to someone
> there, who brought it with them when they moved to California, where upon
> they sold it on eBay to the present owner in CT six years ago. Dr. Abrahams
> mentions that other than the different motor, this car is original. You'll
> notice that the shifter is a Hurst, and that most of the interior is black,
> but the carpeting is blue, both items that the car exhibited when our
> friend
> owned it and I photographed it years ago.
> Rande Bellman
>
>
>
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