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The stylists’ and customers’ desires for frameless door windows on convertible cars present the automotive engineer with a number of problems and life is made more difficult when the winding window has to fit both a hardtop and a well-engineered soft-top frame.
Many of our Tiger and Alpine members have spent a great deal of time, effort and money restoring their cars only to find that within a few months’ time that the once shiny exhaust system is beginning to rust.
By Stu Brennan If you have ever had problems using the pop rivets that hold the side strips on, you can understand why I was looking for a better way. My fenders have some filler in a couple of places, so I couldn’t have used the rivets there if I had wanted to. The better (more…)
Chronicle of a Tiger Repair Part III The finished Tiger of John Logan Sr. on display Part II is here. Article and photos by John Logan Sr. and Doug Jennings First published in Rootes Review, February 2005 The first month we discussed how the Tiger was damaged, disassembled and dipped. Last month we discussed some (more…)
Author unknown My 1965 Tiger Mk I locks in gear, the shifter won’t move. It usually happens in city traffic when shifting up and down several times. All at once it just locks up, but I believe it’s almost always in 3rd gear. I usually just coast to a stop with clutch in or continue (more…)