Previous ower of my car sees it for first time in 7yrs (pic)

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Hi,
I almost bought my Tiger eight years ago from my friend Jacques, but he had to cancel the deal at the last minute for personal reasons.
About a year later he called back to say he would now sell, but I had just bought my '62 Corvette and had no money left, so he sold it to someone else and it disappeared from sight for seven years.
Fast froward to last week when I finally take delivery after seeing it for sale in a local ad.
After much elbow grease I've had it out on the road again, Jacques rode over and met me at a local cruise night tonight and saw his old Tiger for the first time in seven years!
I could tell it was a bit emotional for him, a lot was going on in his life at that time, here's a snap of the reunion.
Hard for me to believe that it's been close to fifteen years since I first laid eyes on it when he had just bought it, time does fly...

Cheers,

Paul

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Nice Reunion Photo

Looking at such a well preserved & cared for car is neat. The Tiger looks so nice and straight. The body gurus constantly remind me that making them look that good is a challenge. When you actually get down to it, there is no body symmetry in welded dimensions from Jensen. The favorite complaint is the open "fish mouth" where the eyebrow fits on and the bonnet & boot gaps of course. Lots of shaping & professional "fudging" happens. . . . . . .;)
 
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randy,
aren't all of the areas you mentioned the product of pressed steel and not jenson? I have to agree that the nose of the car on the ones we have restored ,especially the eyebrow area shows why you need an original molding and not one of the stainless reproductions. the stainless are very hard to make fit the contour if not impossible.
 
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65beam said:
randy,
aren't all of the areas you mentioned the product of pressed steel and not jenson? I have to agree that the nose of the car on the ones we have restored ,especially the eyebrow area shows why you need an original molding and not one of the stainless reproductions. the stainless are very hard to make fit the contour if not impossible.
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Sorry for throwing rocks at Jensen. One of the more fussy body guys (Mr Anal), will spend time with a plywood arch mock-up insisting that both sides of the fish mouth have the same shape. Of course, those subtle changes have a bad habit of progressively wandering up into the headlight and bonnet areas. A 1/2-days man hours turn into a week, etc. Then comes the dreaded eyebrow fitment. And yes; you are dead right about the fit difference of repros. New repros all have kinks where they DO NOT shrink & stretch them correctly (sorry Rick). Although the cost is scary, I most usually send a wounded brow off to our high end chrome guy, because, it's out there where it matters.
 
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that's the reason our guy checks the frame rails first. if they're not in place the rest of the front will be off. we had rail problems with the last two cars.
 
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