What do you think ? Genuine Tiger

It appears to be an old sports car that must be constantly worked on all week just to motor around for a partial week end. Just sayin'
 
Austin Healer said:
The cars sent to Shelby and Ken Miles were both series 3 Alpines...
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Sorry are we talking the 2 proof of concept cars that Shelby and miles built...the white and candy apple red cars?

Both were Series II Alpines, the miles one a well used car iirc.. and was done as a very fast back job as Garrard just wanted to know what the performance would be like in base numbers.. not handling etc
 
The Tiger in the Opening Drive sequence of Get Smart and in the show is definitely owned by Barry Hoffman in Dannevirke New Zealand . Wikipedia is incorrect . An Alpine was used sometimes to show case gadgets such as the under hood cannon which of course would have not fitted under the Tiger hood . The car currently for sale is a genuine Tiger (despite my reservations) it was imported by Phillip Hoffman in 2007 (Barry's brother and also a former patient of mine) Cars imported into New Zealand go through a compliancing process to check they are safe to use on our roads . Quite a few get rejected and the owner must bring them up to standard to legally drive them on the road . I have seen an imported 1958 Chevrolet that was rejected due to engine mounts glued on with expoy glue
 
HolyCat said:
According to Wikipedia (which we know is not always accurate):

Don Adams, who played the protagonist Maxwell Smart, gained possession of the Tiger after the series ended and later gave it to his daughters; it is reportedly on display at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles.

I am not familiar with the term "complied" as it applies to cars. Does this mean bringing a vehicle up to standards in order to register it in another country?

And did Agent 861's patient say how long ago he complied the car for Barry Hoffman? The Playboy Mansion traded hands somewhere around 2017.
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He's well retired now and I didn't ask him but I suspect well before 2017. He remembers driving accross to put the registration sticker on the window . Because he wanted to have a second look at it -Karl
 
michael-king said:
Sorry are we talking the 2 proof of concept cars that Shelby and miles built...the white and candy apple red cars?

Both were Series II Alpines, the miles one a well used car iirc.. and was done as a very fast back job as Garrard just wanted to know what the performance would be like in base numbers.. not handling etc
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The early AF cars were Series 3 based, right? That was the discrepancy I was noting with the windshield flyer they had on the car. They seemed to think they had a prototype of sorts.
 
hottigr said:
The early AF cars were Series 3 based, right? That was the discrepancy I was noting with the windshield flyer they had on the car. They seemed to think they had a prototype of sorts.
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Yes the first batch of prototypes were series 3 based, indeed the Tiger LeMans mule was based on one or rh series 3 alpine V8's .

I was correcting AustinHealer that the cars given to Shelby and Miles were series II not 3
 
michael-king said:
Yes the first batch of prototypes were series 3 based, indeed the Tiger LeMans mule was based on one or rh series 3 alpine V8's .

I was correcting AustinHealer that the cars given to Shelby and Miles were series II not 3
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There were only 3 series 3 cars in the first batch of AF development cars, B9203625 (project 870), B9203826 (AF2) The third has a strange chassis number and is designated B9499999 (AF1) Project 870 and eventually becomes the Mule Le Mans car. There are 2 additional B949 prefixed cars in the Le Mans program B9499997 and B9499998 but these were not in the AF program.

As an interesting side note, Rootes seemed to like using 99XX chassis numbers for one offs and prototypes. The prototype Mk1a's were B9479975 and B9479976
 
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0neoffive said:
It appears to be an old sports car that must be constantly worked on all week just to motor around for a partial week end. Just sayin'
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Randy, I think that applies to not only Sunbeams but to other British marques as well as Italian, Japanese, and German cars. I've owned several of them but my Volvo 144 was the most trouble free of all that I've owned.
 
65beam said:
Randy, I think that applies to not only Sunbeams but to other British marques as well as Italian, Japanese, and German cars. I've owned several of them but my Volvo 144 was the most trouble free of all that I've owned.
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YUP; we have a Volvo "Brick" wagon in the family from before Jesus and the thing just keeps truckin' . Besides raising all the kids it has been thru 22 years of college!
 
0neoffive said:
It appears to be an old sports car that must be constantly worked on all week just to motor around for a partial week end. Just sayin'
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I've always found the Tiger to be super reliable...I assumed due to the American running gear...

Alpine is reliable... But takes a lot more preventative mechanical attention
 
HolyCat said:
Yes, there is no way some of the special effects used on Get Smart's car would fit in a Tiger. My understanding was that the Tiger was used in the opening title sequence and in parts of some of the episodes, but the Alpine was used most of the time. I do remember reading a newspaper article about the time Get Smart ended that mentioned Don Adams was driving his trash cans down a long driveway to the curb in his Tiger.
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Austin Healer said:
it's interesting that the last three numbers on the tag are later strikes. Usually it's only one, sometimes two. it is in the correct fonts and is an early anodized tag. Rivets are spot on as well.
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I have pics of about 1500 tags and there are a few that are 'over stamped' !! looks like the last digit of the VIN and last one for the engine had a different # under Guessing that kind of things happen on a Friday... right after a 'pub' lunch :LOL:
 
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