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Mail From: Stephen Waybright <(email redacted)>

Here's the first reason I have found for me to watch "Fast and
Furious"... I'm now curious to see your garage in the film.

I'd guess they can "lock-in" a few thousand Get Smart movie DVD sales
down the road if they use the Tiger.

I keep looking for Jason Priestley to do some movie or TV show that
features a Tiger (his or another). I also think Steve Carrell is the
perfect guy to play Max Smart.


--- bob josten <(email redacted)> wrote:

> Hi Stu,
> It really just depends on what the 'creative' people decide. If they
> want to
> go 'retro' you would think they would have to use a Tiger. If someone
> says
> they need to go another direction is will be something like a
> Crossfire, or
> some other current car with financial backing.
> I rented out my workshop for use in the filming of the 'Fast and the
> Furious'
> (it was the old brick building that was their garage/workshop). I
> remember
> talking to one of their 'car consultants' and he said they weren't
> interested
> in promoting certain speed products, they were more adamant about
> looking
> authentic to the LA street racing crowd.
> regards
> Bob
>




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Mail From: "Carlo Roberto Bernardino M.D." <(email redacted)>

Actually, the thiing I want to see on TV more than a Jason Priestley
show is a Tiger on Overhauling with Foose. Perhaps my wife can have
my Tiger 'overhauled'.

Rob's V8Tyger
1966 Mk1A Sunbeam Tiger
B382000262





On Aug 24, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Stephen Waybright wrote:

> Here's the first reason I have found for me to watch "Fast and
> Furious"... I'm now curious to see your garage in the film.
>
> I'd guess they can "lock-in" a few thousand Get Smart movie DVD sales
> down the road if they use the Tiger.
>
> I keep looking for Jason Priestley to do some movie or TV show that
> features a Tiger (his or another). I also think Steve Carrell is the
> perfect guy to play Max Smart.
>
>
> --- bob josten <(email redacted)> wrote:

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My worst nightmare is for Foose to get hold of my Tiger. (OK, second worst) He turns cars into everything I don't want. Blastosonic, trunk filling stereos? It has one under the hood, thanks. Ultra low profile tires? I really like to be able to run over things like shadows or paint strips without damaging the rims. Lowering? It's low enough now. "Drifter" fluorescent paint/graphics jobs? Somehow it wouldn't look right on a Tiger.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen that show and I admire his artistry. But the finished cars border on the impractical. I wonder how many of those folks keep and drive their cars daily?

Stu

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Mail From: "Tom Witt" <(email redacted)>

I would concur. Some of those cars (especially the true or "near" Muscle
Cars) if done by anyone else (your average Joe) would be considered to have
lost worth because they deviated from their "original value." It is only
the "Foose" name that likely creates "Added Value." Some of his
"Overhaul-in's" are like the Barris and Roth cars. They have their appeal
for the moment, but shortly there after they are as far "out" as they were
"in." Over the long haul (no pun intended) they might become classics (ala
the current nostalgic appeal of Barris and Roth), but 5 years from now I say
"old hat."
Personally I still think the nicest looking Tigers are rather
straightforward in appearance and have 13" or 14" wheels with 60-70 series
tires. I'm sure there are exceptions and everyone is entitled to their
interpertation of "taste."
Tom Witt




> My worst nightmare is for Foose to get hold of my Tiger. (OK, second
worst) He turns cars into everything I don't want. Blastosonic, trunk
filling stereos? It has one under the hood, thanks. Ultra low profile
tires? I really like to be able to run over things like shadows or paint
strips without damaging the rims. Lowering? It's low enough now.
"Drifter" fluorescent paint/graphics jobs? Somehow it wouldn't look right
on a Tiger.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I've seen that show and I admire his artistry. But
the finished cars border on the impractical. I wonder how many of those
folks keep and drive their cars daily?
>
> Stu

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Mail From: "stan gorski" <(email redacted)>

I wouldn't let Foose touch my Tiger or 88 m3, but my 71 Riveria, now that is
a whole nother ball of wax.

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Mail From: "Theo Smit" <(email redacted)>

Within the confines of what they can do for the Overhauling show, their
rebuild of a Tiger probably would just amount to bolting on whatever cool
stuff they could get from the Sunbeam parts suppliers, putting in a crate
motor, and taking it to the paint shop after doing a bit of sheetmetal work.
I think that Foose has enough sense to not do an over-the-top restification
unless he got some pretty clear signals from the owner's accomplice, that
that was what the owner had in mind to begin with.

If someone was going to be doing custom sheetmetal fixups and a paint job on
my Tiger, and Foose was somehow on the list of places the car could go for
that, then I'd be hard pressed to name someone else I'd put ahead of them.
Certainly not the American Hot Rod group of bickering artistes. :-)

Theo

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I remember reading a short blurb in Hot Rod magazine last year about Dale
performing a $150,000 beautification project on a Tiger that involved some
big-time body, drivetrain and suspension modifications. I wonder whatever became
of that project? I'm sure it didn't take Dale 1-week to finish the job.

Rodney

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Mail From: (email redacted)

At the car show I put on (this one last summer) the Foose/Overhaulin 2 door
cop top 56 (maybe 55) Chevy showed up. The car was not impractical, was done to
the "T's" and was just right. The TV could not come close to showing how well
the car was done and how practical. So practical, that it had been on a
3000 mile tour before it's final trip to be delivered in L.A. Have the pictures
to back it up. I was impressed, wasn't a Tiger but it was nice.


Moonstone