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I think it's mainly us crotchety oldsters who don't need these crutches like front cameras and curb savers to be able to drive our cars without messing them up. Unless you're one of our ladies, then you can make do with the tennis ball hanging from tfhe garage ceiling.
Bruce in Fl
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I think it's mainly us crotchety oldsters who don't need these crutches like front cameras and curb savers to be able to drive our cars without messing them up. Unless you're one of our ladies, then you can make do with the tennis ball hanging from tfhe garage ceiling.
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My new Michelins do have a small lip that may protect during minimal contact, but probably less so, for the 295/35/21s on the 11-in wide rear wheels.
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I owned 2 Sunbeam Tigers.
Primo ones today go for 65 TIMES what nice ones did back in the day.
To get to the last drivers side sparkplug you went inside the car, behind the clutch pedal, pulled a factory rubber plug out of the firewall to get to that plug with a long extension. I never replaced 8 plugs in less than an hour and a half.There was Always blood involved. The Lucas electric fuel pump with fuel lines had only about 12" of AIR between it and one of the HOT dual exhaust pipes directly under it. I had a pair or rubber flops melt to the floor one Summer. There wasn't room under the hood to Write Air Conditioner, much less install one. Just in Georgia in the Winter I wore my Dad's USAF arctic parka for a 2 hr drive to Ft. Benning.
Compared to a modern car, the Tiger was the Flintstones car.
The Good Old Days?
Weren't.
Bruce in Fl WhoDoesStillWishDadWouldHaveBoughtThat24HrsOfLemansTiger
Primo ones today go for 65 TIMES what nice ones did back in the day.
To get to the last drivers side sparkplug you went inside the car, behind the clutch pedal, pulled a factory rubber plug out of the firewall to get to that plug with a long extension. I never replaced 8 plugs in less than an hour and a half.There was Always blood involved. The Lucas electric fuel pump with fuel lines had only about 12" of AIR between it and one of the HOT dual exhaust pipes directly under it. I had a pair or rubber flops melt to the floor one Summer. There wasn't room under the hood to Write Air Conditioner, much less install one. Just in Georgia in the Winter I wore my Dad's USAF arctic parka for a 2 hr drive to Ft. Benning.
Compared to a modern car, the Tiger was the Flintstones car.
The Good Old Days?
Weren't.
Bruce in Fl WhoDoesStillWishDadWouldHaveBoughtThat24HrsOfLemansTiger
Last edited by BruceinFla; Feb 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM.
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Yes they are still G. O. Days. Here we are talking about them still. Great stories, things were simple back then. I appreciate them more now that the tough situations as bloody knuckles are days of future past!
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I owned 2 Sunbeam Tigers.
Primo ones today go for 65 TIMES what nice ones did back in the day.
To get to the last drivers side sparkplug you went inside the car, behind the clutch pedal, pulled a factory rubber plug out of the firewall to get to that plug with a long extension. I never replaced 8 plugs in less than an hour and a half.There was Always blood involved. The Lucas electric fuel pump with fuel lines had only about 12" of AIR between it and one of the HOT dual exhaust pipes directly under it. I had a pair or rubber flops melt to the floor one Summer. There wasn't room under the hood to Write Air Conditioner, much less install one. Just in Georgia in the Winter I wore my Dad's USAF arctic parka for a 2 hr drive to Ft. Benning.
Compared to a modern car, the Tiger was the Flintstones car.
The Good Old Days?
Weren't.
Bruce in Fl WhoDoesStillWishDadWouldHaveBoughtThat24HrsOfLemansTiger
Primo ones today go for 65 TIMES what nice ones did back in the day.
To get to the last drivers side sparkplug you went inside the car, behind the clutch pedal, pulled a factory rubber plug out of the firewall to get to that plug with a long extension. I never replaced 8 plugs in less than an hour and a half.There was Always blood involved. The Lucas electric fuel pump with fuel lines had only about 12" of AIR between it and one of the HOT dual exhaust pipes directly under it. I had a pair or rubber flops melt to the floor one Summer. There wasn't room under the hood to Write Air Conditioner, much less install one. Just in Georgia in the Winter I wore my Dad's USAF arctic parka for a 2 hr drive to Ft. Benning.
Compared to a modern car, the Tiger was the Flintstones car.
The Good Old Days?
Weren't.
Bruce in Fl WhoDoesStillWishDadWouldHaveBoughtThat24HrsOfLemansTiger
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Modern Japanese Benchmark engineering?
Factory modification to the Alpine in order for the Ford V8s to fit involved custom modifying the firewall with a Sledgehammer.
I needed a clutch in my 2nd Tigre. I finally found a foreign car place in Atlanta who not only would do it but quoted me a very decent price. The owner was about a week late finishing the job. When I came in to get it, he said, I run an honest shop, I will charge you what I originally told you I would,
But, don't ever bring this car back here again.
Bruce in Fl
Factory modification to the Alpine in order for the Ford V8s to fit involved custom modifying the firewall with a Sledgehammer.
I needed a clutch in my 2nd Tigre. I finally found a foreign car place in Atlanta who not only would do it but quoted me a very decent price. The owner was about a week late finishing the job. When I came in to get it, he said, I run an honest shop, I will charge you what I originally told you I would,
But, don't ever bring this car back here again.
Bruce in Fl
Last edited by BruceinFla; Feb 5, 2025 at 01:56 PM.