Yep!! It would be extra cool to have one all decked out in CHP!! :-)
Or Even Dukes Of Hazzard!!
Your Favorite Ride Of All Time.
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Logan
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Re: Your Favorite Ride Of All Time.
Yep!! It would be extra cool to have one all decked out in CHP!! :-)
Or Even Dukes Of Hazzard!!
1988 Astro Shorty full cargo - 350 TBI - 5 speed
1993 Passenger 4X4 Astro 305 TBI V8 -2 speed transfer case 5" custom lift - Built by Lockdoc
2015 Ram Promaster City - work car
2004 AWD Express 5.3
2005 Express 15 passenger 6.0
1984 Beauville Full Size Sport Van- built TBI 355-electric fans- 4L60e 95,000 original miles
2001 International School Bus
1993 Passenger 4X4 Astro 305 TBI V8 -2 speed transfer case 5" custom lift - Built by Lockdoc
2015 Ram Promaster City - work car
2004 AWD Express 5.3
2005 Express 15 passenger 6.0
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CaptSquid
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Re: Your Favorite Ride Of All Time.
Money no object?
Mike, Billings, MT, 'MERICA!
92 Safari SLE w/Z Motor (sold to a good home)
98 AWD Stro LS
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Look for the MISSING Alien in the Right Seat. AL, PHONE HOME!!!
92 Safari SLE w/Z Motor (sold to a good home)
98 AWD Stro LS
93 Suburban Silverado 4x4
Look for the MISSING Alien in the Right Seat. AL, PHONE HOME!!!
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CaptSquid
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Re: Your Favorite Ride Of All Time.
Money REALLY no object?
Mike, Billings, MT, 'MERICA!
92 Safari SLE w/Z Motor (sold to a good home)
98 AWD Stro LS
93 Suburban Silverado 4x4
Look for the MISSING Alien in the Right Seat. AL, PHONE HOME!!!
92 Safari SLE w/Z Motor (sold to a good home)
98 AWD Stro LS
93 Suburban Silverado 4x4
Look for the MISSING Alien in the Right Seat. AL, PHONE HOME!!!
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Rebel
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Re: Your Favorite Ride Of All Time.
Back in 67, I had finished High School and for a summer job before college, I went to work on a merchant ship to try and make enough money to buy a Tiger but things didn't work out the way I had planned. To have owned one would have been a dream come true at that time in my life. Seems it was around 3 grand for a new Tiger,,isn't that right ? Also,,didn't Carroll Shelby have his hand in the first Tiger ?
http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/car ... 67012.html
http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/car ... 67012.html
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Rebel
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Re: Your Favorite Ride Of All Time.
You know Mike,,I can see you in that ride,,maybe wearing that hat I sent ya. 
Can ya see it ??
Can ya see it ??89 Astro, 350 V-8, Shaved doors, Filled Slider, Corvette IRS, 94 Mustang GT Rack & Pinion(Thanks to Skip), Cad Tail lights from SoCalliV8 ( RIP) Miss you my friend.
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Re: Your Favorite Ride Of All Time.
Rob 
current rides:
04 Mazda 6 V6 5spd
vans owned:
97 Astro AWD (selling by summer .. i think) SOLD
99 Astro LS Sept 08 ASV VOM
94 Astro LT
93 Astro LT
96 Astro LT AWD * parts van*
current rides:
04 Mazda 6 V6 5spd
vans owned:
97 Astro AWD (selling by summer .. i think) SOLD
99 Astro LS Sept 08 ASV VOM
94 Astro LT
93 Astro LT
96 Astro LT AWD * parts van*
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Re: Your Favorite Ride Of All Time.
That sounds about right. I seem to recall a new Tiger retailing for around $3400.Rebel wrote:Back in 67, I had finished High School and for a summer job before college, I went to work on a merchant ship to try and make enough money to buy a Tiger but things didn't work out the way I had planned. To have owned one would have been a dream come true at that time in my life. Seems it was around 3 grand for a new Tiger,,isn't that right ? Also,,didn't Carroll Shelby have his hand in the first Tiger ?
http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/car ... 67012.html
What is now known as Shelby America did build every Tiger.
Carroll Shelby imported Sunbeam Alpine's from the UK into the US as rolling chassis's after Rootes Group went bankrupt in, I think 1965. Rootes Group survived bankruptsee thanks to a take over by Chrysler and continued to supply rolling chassis's to Shelby untill mid 1967 at which point Rootes Group/Chrysler discontinued the model. Chrysler refused to supply Shelby with the chassis's sighting that they could not come to terms with Shelby regarding the Ford powerplant.
I remember I needed a top end gasket kit one day and since Rootes Group was well on there way out by now I figured I would go to my local Ford dealer and buy the parts. The parts guy searched and searched for the parts only to find out that Ford did not supply the Ford parts I needed for my Tiger's 289.
So I went to a Chrysler dealer and asked if they had a top end kit for a 289. The guy looked at me as though I had two heads and felt he needed to remind me that a 289 is a Ford power plant and that this is a Chrysler dealership. After much disscusion he did find me the gaskets and a whole bunch of other Ford parts on a microfiche. The guy couldn't believe it.
The only thing's I didn't like about the car were the stock Alpine brakes, the tiny gas tank, and changing the plugs on number 4 and 8 cylinders. Shelby had to cut a hole on each side of the transmission hump and install access panels to get at the plugs. What a pita that was.