Patrick,
>Thanks for the reply. I'm curious about your Tiger conversion. Did you do
>it yourself or did you have someone else do it? According to the serial
>numbers, mine was one of the last 800 Alpines ever made. Would converting
>it to a Tiger increase or decrease it's value.
My conversion was done by a young guy up in Concord that did it in his
fathers driveway, I just bought it from him. He did a pretty good job,
found a 52k mile rust free local '66 series 5 car, put in an '85 5.0L
mustang with T-5, 8-inch Ford rear narrowed by Currie, big exhaust, headers,
Holley 600, Tiger repro radiator with electric fans, etc. The one big
mistake he made was using a Pinto steering rack. The car was pretty ugly
and I have done most of my work smoothing out the body and painting it.
Now (well, not really now, as I haven't really done much lately) I am
trying to re-do the steering. Its a project car!
Well as far as value, alpines really aren't worth much unless they are
real nice and stock, depends on the buyer but I probably only paid what
he had in parts alone, with its nice new paint job, its probably worth
less than it would be as a stock alpine... but Tigers are so much more
fun to drive (opinion)... Is your Alpine nice?
>I come down to the Bay Area quite often. I mostly visit Oracle Corp. in
>Redwood Shores. Maybe we could swap advice over lunch sometime.
You bet, I am a little far away in Fremont (and moving back to San Jose
next month), but we could give it a try. Beers after work might work
better for me. Wickland you reading the mail? He's my local tiger
buddy...
Gary
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