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Mail From: "Stephen Waybright" <(email redacted)>

40 years from now, how many previously TAC'ed cars might have been totaled
and saved with an Alpine re-body? How often do you need to repeat the TAC
inspection to insure it is worth the sticker it's printed on? If none, how
can you even count on TAC as proof?

However well intentioned, I personally believe TAC causes more division
within the Tiger community than it's worth, and that in itself hurts the
value and collector appreciation of our cars far more than the very limited
cases of Alger fraud that occur. For evidence, refer to the amount of list
traffic this has generated.

Stephen Waybright

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Stephen....This isn't division; this is lively debate........

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Mail From: Marc James Small <(email redacted)>

At 01:47 PM 11/24/02 -0600, Stephen Waybright wrote:
>However well intentioned, I personally believe TAC causes more division
>within the Tiger community than it's worth, and that in itself hurts the
>value and collector appreciation of our cars far more than the very limited
>cases of Alger fraud that occur. For evidence, refer to the amount of list
>traffic this has generated.
>

I agree, completely. TAC is foolish and idiotic. It is so
self-contradictory as to be impossible of implementation.

Let wiser heads prevail!

This is, in the end, a grey universe. We really should accept ambiguities,
rather than attempt artificial divisions. This is not an area of great
interest to me, but I understand that the "official" list of Tiger body
serial numbers is being held in confidence? If so, that is the most
contraproductive thing I can imagine, and fie on those who would be so
foolish!

The whole issue is a whoof! without a reason. Accuracy depends on the
item, not on some certification from self-certified folks with grand egos
and little knowledge.

I bought my Alpine in '72. I traced the title and had the three previous
owners appear before me. Under a full moon, I made them swear that my car
was not a converted Tiger, and they did so swear. I did not accept their
word alone, of course. I contacted six Rootes workers in the UK (well,
four; two had immigrated, one to Canada and another to New Zealand, but,
damn!, I ran them down. Fortunately, all had maintained a register of
every body that they had ever worked upon.) And all swore that my car had
begun life as an Alpine.

What more could I wish? But this TAC stuff is now engendering an AAC
movement and, alas!, my paperwork is in disarray!

I am in great fear that, should I decide to sell my car, that I now must
list it as something other than what it really is, an Alpine V. Should I
list it as a Tiger? Hell, no! My car has the proper number of cylinders!
Should I list it as a Humber? Alas, no, one of the major errors of the
First Baron Rootes was in not acknowledging the Alpines as Humbers ...

Give me a break. A car is a car. And, of course, caveat emptor. And,
pray, I hope Tiger owners will swallow their greed.

Marc

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Mail From: (email redacted)

Stephen,
Assuming I am alive 40 years from now, my biggest concern will be
finding an appropriate fuel that resembles gasoline to run in my two real
Tigers.

Jim Leach Pacific Tiger Club Seattle
B9470908 (TAC100)
B9471951 (3 weeks old and awaiting TAC)