'66 eBay Tiger

Just wait awhile

Won' t be long till we see 215 come out of a lengthy and very thorough restoration. No expense will be spared I'm sure.:cool:
 
New Hampshire ??

Saw it in PA a while ago, we did. Interesting that it somehow became a NH based sale ?? Title process is easier in NH. The purchase price and another home mortgage will get you a nice driver.
 
Co-part

Was this the same car? "Salvage Title", just seems light n care free.

Bruce, I'd rather have your spare expansion tank it is not melted into 3 pieces
 
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Temper, Temper.

Hey, you know, when they've gotten that hot, it makes the metal soft and real easy to work with! "Straighten out in a jiffy!".
Seriously, it amazes me people even try to sell something like that, and much more that people actually BUY them. I had a Tiger that burned up in the 2007 Witch Creek fire, looked something like this car when the fire got done with it, and someone BOUGHT it at the insurance auction. Tags were vaporized, so all they got was some un-tempered sheet metal that used to look like a Tiger. You have to wonder what they were planning to do with it? Should go straight into the shredder.
Bob K.
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I went to WalMart about 8 years ago on a Saturday and on the way home I saw a Mk2 Tiger sitting at the Sunoco station so I pulled in to look. The guy was waiting for a tow because he said the brakes were not working right. It turned out to be a failed servo, but he was being cautious with his baby. I told him that I owned a Tiger in HS and loved the cars. Then he went on to tell me that he had another one that had caught on fire. It was his previous car and he went around a corner and the ass end got away from him and pickup truck his him in the left rear qtr, knocked the gas tank loose and it caught on fire. It burned from the firewall back but was extinguished by a fire truck. He was a surgeon and didn't feel like fixing it, so he bought a Mk2 and paid to have it restored. I asked if the Mk1 was for sale and he laughed and said yes. I looked at it the following Saturday and bought it cheap. All the interior was gone but the engine, underside, mechanicals, etc were fine. So I lucked into an Alpine donor and replaced the left rear frame rail from just behine the rearend and both entire rear fender clips from the doors back. The doors had burned & warped so I used the Alpine doors too. I intended to keep it until I found a '69 R Code, SCJ Mach 1 and since it was more rare, I had to sell the Tiger for space for the Mach 1. I also had a '65 Shelby-Clone/Restomod as well. Some of you may remember it being on Ebay about 6-7 years ago. See pics.
 
Just curious--how did everything fit after it was done? It looks like the pinstripe on the Alpine donor 1/4 and door would not line up if you connected them. I do admire you for taking on such a big project.
 
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pitt40,
that looks like Mike Gaffney's tiger that burned in Pittsburgh. if it is I remember meeting you at the Pittsburgh show and shook my head when you said you were going to fix it. I must say it looks different than it did when I drove it and it belonged to bob.
 
Yes, that is Mike's fire bomb Tiger. I sold it on Ebay to a guy in Indiana, PA who sent me an email about 6 months later and had it road worthy. I have tried to contact him again to no avail. I live about 5 minutes from Mike and need to reconnect now that I am buying another Tiger.
 
Cobrakidz:

I see what you are saying from that pic. But it's actually an optical illusion. I had that pinstripe lined perfectly. I left the original door sill lip and welded the new qtr about 1/4" from the edge. I used the Alpine trunk floor too because the Tiger's was buckled and I welded the spare hub & tailpipe hangers to the Alpine floor for originality sake. The toughest fit was where passenger frame rail meet the rear cross member (back of trunk). I had to have a friend stand on it so I could tack it into place and then that bolt in support along the right rear had to be tactfully hammered into place because of the tight fit. In the end it was all straight. I had it a level floor and got it all true before final welding.
 
Another note is that Dave Ley, who built the black Hollywood Racer replica that sold for 145K recently, is also in Pittsburgh and I'm friends with him.

My dad bought that Alpine with a rebuilt 1725 motor and trans, new chrome and some other stuff for his Series 2 Alpine. Then this Tiger came along for me, so I had a free body donor. My dad took everything he wanted, I used the rear clip and then I had a chassis minus rear clip and doors sitting in my driveway with a cover because my retired neighbor hates junk cars. It just so happened that Dave got a customer's Tiger to repair (he owns restoration/exotic car business) that had taken a good front impact. So he and I swapped the rest of that Alpine for a host of leftover parts because he bought all kinds of stuff to build that Hollywood car. So I got a good wiring harness and dash (which burned) among other goodies from him.

So whoever took their red Tiger to Dave has the front end of that sheetmetal with the gold stripes on it.
 
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