LROFE in Texas

65Beam

I am also a west coast person and I did not read it like you did. See my comments below.


What is interesting about this seller is that the Tiger listing is broken English, but if you look at all the other items he has listed, he writes perfect English as if it is not the same person.
 
texas

does it make any difference? none of you are going to buy the car to start with so why talk about it for months.
 
texas

I must say most California cars are rust free. that's the reason we bought the MK 2 shell in the early 90's and hauled it home and converted it back to an alpine.
 
65beam said:
I must say most California cars are rust free. that's the reason we bought the MK 2 shell in the early 90's and hauled it home and converted it back to an alpine.
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Why do you persist in such nonsense talk on a Tiger forum. You cannot take a Tiger and turn it back to an Alpine because it never was an Alpine. Just like a Alpine body is never going to be a Tiger. Just because they are the same external shape does not make one the other. The car gets it identity from the factory as a finished product. I mean to say, it doesn't get much more simple does it ?.
 
texas

I bet if you were to look at the build sheet for a body intended for the jenson tiger line there would be a list of alpine items to be deleted. some of this could be the trans tunnel, top hats, battery box, etc. the alpine body and tiger body both carry the same pressed steel patent plates.
 
"the alpine body and tiger body both carry the same pressed steel patent plates."


There is no reason they wouldn't because the same basic design/production method was used in the Alpine and Tiger unibody as in other Rootes products of that period.
 
texas

same assembly line with deletions for bodies going to jenson for conversion to tiger.
 
"same assembly line with deletions for bodies going to jenson for conversion to tiger"

You cannot delete something that was never included.

Two separate build orders:: one for Alpine bodies which stayed within Rootes facilities and one for Tiger bodies destined for Jensen Motors distinct from the Alpine order. At no point were Alpine bodies shipped to Jensen Motors to be used in building a Tiger.

Your claimed MKII conversion to an Alpine should have told you that much.
 
OFf topic

Guys limit the O/T and ad hominem statements The car is merely a bad penny that continues to show up and nothing more.

The car makes a great piñata swing away at it and not each other or the marque and make it easy to keep threads open.
 
This is off the topic of the red car.

I'd like to correct a few comments that appeared earlier in this thread about the involvement of Jensen and Pressed Steel in building the Alpines and Tigers. The following is my current understanding of the process.

In the 1964-67 time frame both Alpine and Tiger bodies were built on the same line at Pressed Steel in Oxford. Various assemblies were built and then welded together to form the tub and what the industry calls the "buck".

From some of these initial assemblies, Tigers differed from Alpines! And vice versa. There are many Tiger specific differences in Pressed Steel's construction of Tigers versus Alpines.

In the case of the Alpines, at Pressed Steel the entire car was built and even finish painted. The interior and trim were installed and the car was then trucked about 60 miles north to Rootes' Ryton facility for installation of the drive train. With Alpines Rootes had subcontracted the vast majority of the construction to Pressed Steel.

Since Tiger transmission tunnels were to be installed by Jensen, Pressed steel did not install a tunnel, so the carpeting and seats were shipped "loose". It appears that except for the floor the rest of the interior was installed by Pressed Steel. The otherwise completed, painted and trimmed Tigers were trucked about 70 miles north to Jensen.

At Jensen the Tiger tunnels were installed and various minor mods were done to each chassis before Jensen installed the drive line.

Jensen did not "build" the Tigers. Jensen did a little work on each. For their efforts Jensen was paid GBP 30. That's not a typo. All they got was 30 pounds per car. The majority of the building was done by Pressed Steel.

The point I want to make is that while Tigers were built on the same line at Pressed Steel as Alpines, the two differed from the beginning of construction.

BT
at the beach
 
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