When fitted with the proper equipment, the Tiger became a true racer and could dominate an event while putting some of Europe’s finest to shame. This proper equipment was available from the beginning for the Tiger and was designated as LAT meaning Los Angeles Tiger.
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By Jim Morrison Membership Chairman Tigers East/Alpines East is now offering an Internet based distribution of our monthly newsletter, The Rootes Review. We are calling it the Electronic Rootes Review. If you sign up for this method, you will receive an email every month with a link to your copy of the month’s Rootes Review. (more…)
From Rootes Review Vol. 6, #2, March 1981 If you’ve wondered what he’s been designing lately, this recipe was found in a cookbook, Chili Madness: A Passionate Cookbook by Jane Butel Carroll Shelby’s Chili 1/2 pound suet or 1/2 cup cooking oil 1 pound beef round, coarse chili grind 1 pound beef chuck, coarse chili (more…)
From Rootes Review Vol. 5, #4, April 1980 by Alan Richard Simon It started as a bad day… the guy rewelding the traction bars on my 1965 Tiger torched the carpet under the passenger’s seat and had the nerve to bill me $17.00 an hour – he paid for the damage, but that’s another story. (more…)
From Rootes Review: Vol. 9, #10, 1984 Dr. John Bruney purchased his azure blue Harrington LeMans from a Columbus, OH, sportscar dealer on August 21, 1964. He traded a blue ’63 TR4 (22,000 miles young) for the attractive, blue on blue Sunbeam which had clocked 200 miles as a dealer demonstrator. The car was original–never (more…)
From Rootes Review: Vol. 3, #7, December 1978 Those of us who live in the northern areas of the country, where it snows near the end/beginning of the year, are often the recipients of an assortment of sneers, chides and various other unfriendly aspersions, cast by those who reside in warmer climates. The southern latitudes (more…)
From Rootes Review: Vol. 5, #4, April 1980 The president of Tigers/Alpines East has requested that the club Reps send an article to the Rootes Review, detailing what is going on in our region. For the interest of our members. I would like to introduce Lawrence E. Mayfield of Madison Alabama who is building the (more…)
Photos and article by Steve Silverstein First published in Rootes Review, April 2006 Parked almost 36 years ago, This Alpine early Series II raced from 1963-1968, and appears to have been driven by J. Mone. I haven’t been able to find any additional records besides from a Vineland, NJ race. I suspect the car raced (more…)
By Robert Jaarsma First published in Rootes Review August 2005 Several members of TE/AE met with “B.A.T.A.N.S.”. It is a close knit group of dedicated British car owners- the British Automobile Touring Association of Nova Scotia (B.A.T.A.N.S., www.batans.ca ). About 12 members were making a nine day run to southern New England. TE/AE members Ted (more…)