382001359, new project

[Watry]

I bought Mk 1A, 382001359, green/black, a couple months ago in the South Bay, CA. Car is largely original and not modified or messed up, was repainted in the 70s, paint reacted poorly, never reassembled, as the story goes. Been inside, through a couple owners, ever since. Engine, trans, diff all rebuilt, but not put back in the car at the time. Car was TAC inspected and passed muster.

Most everything was included; I have a Tiger kit. Original 260 had been rebuilt in the Fremont, CA area, not a very good job. I've torn down, going through it; I have a thread in the engine forum on it. Car is stashed at Hayward airport just now in a friend's hangar with two of my Alfas. Once I clear out the garage, it'll come home and I'll attack in earnest. No rust to fix, but the green paint was sprayed on everything, and it needs redoing properly. LF fender has a repair that needs looking after, but basically it's a strip/paint job, no rust of accident damage. So that's good.

I come mostly from the Alfa world, have five of them, have had dozens over the years. Previous British experience includes an MGA Twin Cam my dad bought new in England, a flathead Anglia, and helping a friend on a couple nasty Alpines in high school in the 70s.

Have gotten great Tiger support from Bill Martin, Hobey Landreth, Emily Vassos, all in the Bay Area.

Andrew Watry
Berkeley, CA

 

[michael-king]

Welcome to a great sunbeam community, being in ca is a great position, lots of specialist, lots of cars for reference, lots of helpful owners and of course a great club with great forum

 

[JB66CAT]

Looks pretty clean except for the minor damage you mentioned. Actually, it's ready for prep and paint! Best of luck with your new project! Mine is getting close to final paint. Then all the interior and bit and pieces.
Jim

 

[Watry]

I spend a fair amount of time on the AlfaBB, it's similarly technical like this forum, very helpful. So far digging the Tiger community.

Yep, step one is get it painted; no better time than now while everything's off the shell. I used Whipple Auto Body in Hayward for my Duetto, was very happy, tentatively planning to go there, but will also look into a couple other leads.

Andrew

 

[Warren]

I used Whipple Auto Body in Hayward.

Andrew

I was wondering what Mr Whipple was doing since he stopped squeezing the Charmin

I owned B382001326 but she's off to another home. It had the same 260 build date as Duke's display shelf, a steering rack dated 2-66 but not much else matched the car.

Chris Richards is a Pro Vendor in our forum check him out.

BTW we have a South Bay too in Lost Angeles

 

[Watry]

As I understand it the gearbox in this car is not original to the car, but it is an HEH-E, so that's good. Everything else major is believed original to the car, numbers all check out. Engine valve cover tag matches records, key codes, etc.

But that's South Bay, not The South Bay, right? I went to high school in North San Diego County, never lived in LA proper though.

Andrew

 

[Watry]

I lost my storage at Hayward airport, so brought the Tiger and two Giuliettas home. One Giulietta will leave the garage shortly and then the Tiger can go inside.

Haven't done much on the car itself, Step One will be to paint it before doing much else. Have painted the driveshaft, which was a green that matched neither the original paint nor the repaint, removed and cleaned up the parking brake handle.

Engine has been at the machine shop, got the [original] 260 block back last week. Starting to assemble, so far so good. Trans was rebuilt before the car languished, am replacing the seals and gaskets as they turned to stone.

Andrew

 

[cobrakidz]

Looks like you are plugging along nicely. I like your tow rig, had a 70 Ford truck like that years ago, wish I still had it, great work horse. Good luck on your progress.

 

[Watry]

Thanks. It's a 69 F250, 360, two-barrel, four-speed. Can do no wrong. Bought it maybe five years ago on craigslist for practically nothing; rebuilt engine, brakes, new wheels and tires. With giant 16" tires, cruises 70 mph with ease (when not towing).

Andrew

 

[Watry]

My attaching feature on yahoo was screwy, now fixed.
Engine is moving along, is mostly built now, bottom end in, oil pump in, heads on. Here's a pic when I was putting the crank in. Plastigaged everything, all measured up just right.

Andrew