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Love the side pipes--that had to be before parking lot speed bumps. ð???
Best Regards
David Sosna
On 6/23/22 14:36, twotigers--- via Tigers wrote:
>
> Jay,
>
> That was a great looking top. I believe I had the same top on my first
> Tiger but it was labeled Coachman. Bought it in the early 70â??s. Dare I
> say, I actually liked the look of it slightly more than the factory
> hardtop! I donâ??t know about you airline pilot, but I bought my Tiger
> in Sun Valley in 1970.
>
> Kirk
>
> *From:* Tigers <tigers-bounces@autox.team.net> *On Behalf Of *Jay
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 23, 2022 9:38 AM
> *To:* Tiger List List <tigers@autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* [Tigers] Pilot who owned a Tiger and Ferrari in Woodland
> Hills in 80s
>
> Anyone here an airline pilot who owned a Tiger and then a Ferrari, and
> lived in Woodland Hills in the 1980s? Â Or anyone know who that might
> have been?
>
> I was just recalling that I purchased a Dynoplastic hardtop from
> you/him then. Â At the time, he had sold his Tiger and bought a
> Ferrari, and still had the hardtop. Â I bought it for a whopping $75.
>
> Itâ??s funny, it didn't have the rear quarter windows. The front and
> rear clips were basically L brackets with J bolts in them. Years
> later, when I had money and restored my Alpine, I bought a decent
> factory steel hardtop and restored it to match perfectly, all new
> rubber, all new windows and all correct brackets. I finally ditched
> that silly $75 top.
>
>
> Then I came to realize how great that Dynoplastic one was. Glass rear
> window and sooooo light. Easy to put on and off by myself. Easy to
> hang up on the wall. Quick to put on and off if the need arose.
>
> And now instead I have a supremely heavy hardtop with plastic rear
> window, that I can still put on and off myself - but with quite a heft
> to get it up and off. In fact, I think I've done it only once or twice
> since restoring it. Of course that's mostly because I greatly prefer
> top down driving and don't drive it in the rain.
>
>
>
> Sometimes they say the simpler life is the better life.  So maybe
> the simpler hardtop is the better hardtop.
>
>
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<p>Love the side pipes--that had to be before parking lot speed
bumps. ð???</p>
<p>Best Regards</p>
<p>David Sosna<br>
</p>
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</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/23/22 14:36, twotigers--- via
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<p class="MsoNormal">That was a great looking top. I believe I
had the same top on my first Tiger but it was labeled
Coachman. Bought it in the early 70â??s. Dare I say, I actually
liked the look of it slightly more than the factory hardtop! I
donâ??t know about you airline pilot, but I bought my Tiger in
Sun Valley in 1970.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Kirk<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jay<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 23, 2022 9:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Tiger List List <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net";><tigers@autox.team.net></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Tigers] Pilot who owned a Tiger and
Ferrari in Woodland Hills in 80s<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Anyone here an airline pilot who owned a
Tiger and then a Ferrari, and lived in Woodland Hills in the
1980s? Â Or anyone know who that might have been?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was just recalling that I purchased a
Dynoplastic hardtop from you/him then. Â At the time, he had
sold his Tiger and bought a Ferrari, and still had the
hardtop. Â I bought it for a whopping $75.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Â </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Itâ??s funny, i<span
style="color:#141414;background:#FCFCFF">t didn't have the
rear quarter windows. The front and rear clips were
basically L brackets with J bolts in them. Years later,
when I had money and restored my Alpine, I bought a decent
factory steel hardtop and restored it to match perfectly,
all new rubber, all new windows and all correct brackets.
I finally ditched that silly $75 top.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#141414"><br>
<span style="background:#FCFCFF">Then I came to realize
how great that Dynoplastic one was. Glass rear window
and sooooo light. Easy to put on and off by myself. Easy
to hang up on the wall. Quick to put on and off if the
need arose.</span><br>
<br>
<span style="background:#FCFCFF">And now instead I have a
supremely heavy hardtop with plastic rear window, that I
can still put on and off myself - but with quite a heft
to get it up and off. In fact, I think I've done it only
once or twice since restoring it. Of course that's
mostly because I greatly prefer top down driving and
don't drive it in the rain.  </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:#141414;background:#FCFCFF">Sometimes they
say the simpler life is the better life. Â So maybe
the simpler hardtop is the better
hardtop. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Â </o:p></p>
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