[Tigers] Alpines rock!

[Jay Laifman]

I have an Alpine with a 125 hp Holbay engine, and my dad's Tiger, as well as a
'73 911 and a '67 912.

The Alpine is a wonderful handling car, and on paper has more hp/lb than a
stock 260 Tiger.  But they are completely different animals and one is not
better than the other.

As to trouncing 911s.  BS.  ;-)  It just must have been your driving ability
(or the Porsches didn't know you were racing them).  My 911 is the "lowly" T
and there is no way either hopped up Alpine or Tiger can touch it on the race
track.  Just not true.  Sorry.

Now, which is my favorite car to drive to work every day - the 912, with the
lowest HP of all of them.  I never ever expected to like that car.  Got it as
a fluke.  The engine, which I would think is a VW engine, is not.  It's the
last iteration of the 356 engine - the engine that made the company famous.

But, there is nothing, nothing like the torque and roar of that Tiger.  Puts a
smile on my face every time I shift.  And sometimes the lower the RPM I shift,
the more of the smile.

Jay


On Mar 2, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Owain Lloyd wrote:

> I competed in a 5 day event in France this week in an Alpine belonging to a
> friend (who is an ex British rally champion).  It was sooooo good that I'm
> trying to think how I can convert my tiger to a 4 banger.  Not much power
> but loads of torque and simply amazing road holding.  I was quite literally
> trouncing 911s in it.  The tiger would have been much much slower due to
> it's terrible handling.
>
> Falling out of love?  Someone save me!
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