[Tigers] Can This Tiger Be Saved?

[Cullen McCann]

ooooh...one of my favorite conversations and the beginnings of a great debate.

my official position: YES!!!...anything can be saved with enough money and time involved...but its usually the car and project that the poor guys like me chase and the rich guys say is too far gone....which is fine with me, it gives an opportunity for the poor guys to play too. And when the car is all back together and it looks as good as new....if done right...no one will ever know you resurrected a mkII from certain death....then I get to rub shoulders with you cool guys and be part of the cool crowd....(it works better when you donbt know what I started with, but the concept is sound from my perspective...)

I do however agree that this car would be ALLLOOOOTTT of work. its actually not the rust that scares me as bad as the wreck damage on the driver qtr panel.....that kinda thing has a tendency to ripple throughout a unibody...and you never know for sure how far it got. next thing you know the front fenders donbt line up....and you never find out why....

Actually I will back up a bit...the more I look at it, the more I notice it actually does have "structural rust" in the cross members...it would be a royal pain the square that car back up I think....but I bet someone buys it and "rebodies" it....which I donbt know FOR SURE how to feel about. Based off of prior conversations about "original tub" authenticity being the determining factor....then a rebody in of itself would be an alger I suppose...but again, if you took this car, replaced the floor pan, replaced the trunk pan, replaced the fenders and quarters....then you might as well have rebodied it, because only about 50lbs of the original tub is still there, enough to put in a suitcase..but yet people donbt frown on it as much....and its not at all uncommon to restore a car and replace all the skin and pans.......so honestly, I donbt know about that...it seems like more of a conceptual debate.................but yes, its one realllly rough old cat...poor thing....never had a chance...so neglected...left to die, alone.....just not humane







On Ebay is listed a really rough MK II,  # 220455388283,  that appears to be
too far gone to be saved.  It doesn't even look like there is enough "Tiger"
parts to make an Alger.  May it rust in peace!
 
 
                                                       Jeff 
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