Motor Trend Classic
I have just started accessing the Forum, and getting caught up. This article is about my Tiger in Atlanta, and my friend John Ayers' Daimler SP250. He also has a mean Tiger with a monster motor, but Frank Markus (MT Technical Editor) wanted a "more stock" example for this article.
Any notion I had of working for a car magazine being glamorous was neatly dis-spelled by this day. We had to be at the photo site (Oglethorpe University in North Atlanta) before dawn, and were there until sunset, so the photographer could "catch the light." I believe he took something like 1400 pix - the downside of digital photography - then he had to sort them.
Anyway, the shoot date was the day after St. Patrick's Day, and the mag hit the newstands here in Atlanta on June 12. At $15 per copy I am sure not too many Tiger people ended up with them (they publish about 20,000 per month of the "classic") but after seeing it in print it all seems vaguely worth it.
