daddytiger64
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I guess I should have introduced myself to the group before this but as you all know…time has a way of slipping by.
My name is Paul and I found this website a couple weeks ago through another forum (I forget which one). Anyways, I live in the Detroit, Michigan metro area and have a Sunbeam Tiger (a couple pictures were put in the Member’s Rides section). In 1981 at a Shelby convention I saw my first Tiger at the end of a long row of Mustangs, I said to myself someday I would own one (22 years later I finally bought one).
Growing up in the Motor City with lots of relatives working for the Big 3 I didn’t have much exposure to British cars (or other foreign cars for that matter) but I do remember as a youth cutting through a neighbor’s yard on my way to school everyday and seeing an Anglia, a Cortina and TR7 on his property.
I have always owned 60s-70s muscle cars as my toys so the Tiger seemed a nature fit to me, however over the years because of a couple of my friends and neighbors who have owned other British cars (MGs, Triumphs, Sunbeams, Lotus, Jaguar, etc…) I have come to respect and enjoy all British vehicles whether they are 4, 6, 8 or 12 cylinders. My knowledge of these cars is rather limited but I hope to learn as I go.
Someday when finances allow I would like to acquire a friend for my Tiger…maybe a Mini or MGB or Lotus or Triumph or Jaguar or ???…so many cars, so little money.
My name is Paul and I found this website a couple weeks ago through another forum (I forget which one). Anyways, I live in the Detroit, Michigan metro area and have a Sunbeam Tiger (a couple pictures were put in the Member’s Rides section). In 1981 at a Shelby convention I saw my first Tiger at the end of a long row of Mustangs, I said to myself someday I would own one (22 years later I finally bought one).
Growing up in the Motor City with lots of relatives working for the Big 3 I didn’t have much exposure to British cars (or other foreign cars for that matter) but I do remember as a youth cutting through a neighbor’s yard on my way to school everyday and seeing an Anglia, a Cortina and TR7 on his property.
I have always owned 60s-70s muscle cars as my toys so the Tiger seemed a nature fit to me, however over the years because of a couple of my friends and neighbors who have owned other British cars (MGs, Triumphs, Sunbeams, Lotus, Jaguar, etc…) I have come to respect and enjoy all British vehicles whether they are 4, 6, 8 or 12 cylinders. My knowledge of these cars is rather limited but I hope to learn as I go.
Someday when finances allow I would like to acquire a friend for my Tiger…maybe a Mini or MGB or Lotus or Triumph or Jaguar or ???…so many cars, so little money.