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    Brabham connection

    Oh the Tiger survived alright -it sold a few years ago and I looked at it with a view to buying it - Its farm use had taken a toll and It had been restored by a local specialist MG restorer who had used some of the MG replacement body panels they fabricated to repair the sills -which to me...
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    Brabham connection

    My father knew Jack Brabham well -In fact Dad introduced Chris Amon to Jack in New Zealand in the early 1960's -this was instrumental in Chris getting his F1 and Le Mans career under way . As I write this an original set of Jacks racing overalls sit in my wardrobe about 20 feet away from me...
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    source for series 2 metal brake fluid reservoir?

    Try this firm in the UK -Great to deal with and appear to have what you need https://sunbeamcarparts.co.uk/brake-system/brake-master-cylinder-11-16-inch
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    Steering Wheel Repair

    I can't remember but think I used woodworkers glue. Recently I repaired the cracks with Wests epoxy glue tinted to match the walnut
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    Steering Wheel Repair

    The steering wheel in my Tiger came from a Tiger that was stolen some years ago and when the joyride had finished the thieves proceeded to set on everything with sledgehammers . I have repaired the steering wheel glueing everything together and filling all the cracks with wood filler and...
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    Inherited a Mk1A Tiger project seeking advise

    Having done both I'm now a rolling restoration guy- I restored my Series V Alpine many years ago as a complete restoration to pretty much concourse standards -cost a lot and was off the road for a couple of years I missed driving it and was apprehensive about driving it when finished and it...
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    Ballast resistor location in Mk 1 Tiger

    Has anyone thought of approaching the publisher and asking for a reprint -The demand is certianly there -Karl
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    Ballast resistor location in Mk 1 Tiger

    Thank you for clarifying things
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    Ballast resistor location in Mk 1 Tiger

    The whole BON thing has me confused -with prices pushing over $1000 the demand is obviously there for another run. i'm not sure why it hasn't happened -Someone sold me a copy on ebay and it was precisely that a photocopy of the original book and I suspect not complete at that -A...
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    Ballast resistor location in Mk 1 Tiger

    Drove home last week -It's summer here - Drive home from work is only 10 minutes and in my drive the car just stopped . Attempts to restart it resulted in a few seconds of running and then it would stop . Pushed it down the drive and it started fine after 10 minutes . Intially I thought of...
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    More replacement horn ring questions

    Andrew Not to difficult . Essentially you want to postion the insulators so that the copper bell is but isolated from the horn ring itself .one of the rivets anchors the live feed to the bell Then the copper plate attaches to the horn ring by the three threaded bolts with springs and is...
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    "Guesstamate"of survivors

    I'm with you Scotty -Mines an original RHD and there weren't many of those -Karl
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    First British Car

    1967 Series V Alpine brought in 1985 and I still have it -Over the years it has had stablemates a MGB a MGBGT a MG Midget and an Ausitn Healey Sprite - I don't believe any of them were a patch on the Alpine and I eventually sold them all . The Alpines current stablemate is a 1965...
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    Original or Modified

    It is a different animal -but is it still a Sunbeam Tiger- Certainly not an original Tiger -Does it matter ? -I guess we all sit in different places on this -which is fine
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    Electronic ignition kit

    Yep but most people who look under the hood wouldn't spot the two wires - And heck most of the younger generation have no idea how points and condensor work . A few days ago I had a conversaton with a young car nut at work -I went to great pains to explain how primary and secondary...
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    Electronic ignition kit

    I've got a pertronix kit in both my Series V and my Mk1 Tiger - Work great and no issues with lots of mileage in the alpine over 20+ years . When I first got the tiger the idle was a little lumpy despite everything appearing fine -Installed the Pertronic and immediately the idle was...
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    Rebuilding the late hardtop, new sheet metal parts

    Why are the UK ones not an option ?
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    Windscreen installation tip

    When I restored my Alpine -I installed a new windscreen . Altough we had done no work at all on the frame the screen was to big for the frame in the vertical axis and we used a hydraulic ram to stretch the frame to make the screen fit . The old (cracked) windscreen had been a perfect...
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    Rechroming pitted front Grill Emblem

    Correct but the Series IV /Mk 1 had a different surround . My Mk 1 tiger has the wrong surround (ie the later one ) and my obcession with originality is urging me to correct this -Karl
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    Rechroming pitted front Grill Emblem

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