[Tigers] Inquiry about Playboy Tiger hood emblem

[michael king]

As a side note.. it was also on the LAT bonnet in the LAT sales brochure

On 21 February 2013 23:37, rande <rande at thecia.net> wrote:

> Good Morning,
>
> Hopefully, this has been suggested already, but if not...
>
> With my PC, I can't get a large enough and detailed view of the emblem, but
> from what I can see, it looks very much like the LAT 70 alloy wheel spinner
> emblem. If you haven't already gone to the Sunbeam Specialties PDF
> catalogue,
> please go to www.rootes.com  and take a look at page 28. This is the page
> where
> they list available replacement LAT option parts. The emblem is shown
> separately
> for Alpines and Tigers, only the Tiger version is available now, for under
> $4.00
> each.
>
> I wasn't following the Playboy Tiger project in real time in the 1960's,
> but
> my hunch is that West Coast representative for Rootes Group Ian Garrad had
> a
> hand in converting this Tiger, and at the same time was responsible for
> putting
> together the LAT option program. If this emblem did not come directly from
> the
> LAT catalogue, I think the one on the pink Tiger was based very much on the
> design of LAT 70 wheel emblem. I would have you approximate the size of the
> emblem on the car, and call or contact Sunbeam Specialties to have them
> measure
> the part that they sell.
>
> If this hasn't already been pointed out, all of the photographs of the
> Playboy
> Tiger that you've shown me, as well as the PR black and white eight by ten
> and
> magazine shots, look like they were posed at a site in the Santa Monica
> Mountain
> range in southern California, near Los Angeles, near the West Coast Rootes
> offices.
> While all of this is not concrete proof that the emblem came from the LAT
> program,
> the evidence to me points that way.
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Regards

Michael King

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