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Just been sent these...
maybe his speedo was inaccurate or it's a mother of a manhole cover....or was it just subject to a crap repair
another forum said:
"After owning the Florida car for one week it was brought out for a drive. The driver hit a dip on his own residential road at 15 mph when his wishbone front suspension caught a manhole cover rim and ripped his Tiger apart"
maybe his speedo was inaccurate or it's a mother of a manhole cover....or was it just subject to a crap repair
M-G said:
Is it me or do those wings look like they were pop riveted together?
It does. If you open the second photo without ted's resizing, it's easier to see:
www.sunbeamautorestorations.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/bokentigerlsidefront.jpg
Agent006 said:
Is it me or do those wings look like they were pop riveted together?
It does. If you open the second photo without ted's resizing, it's easier to see:
www.sunbeamautorestorations.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/bokentigerlsidefront.jpg
They could be failed spot welds....
Do Tigers have McPherson strut front suspension? Looks like the strut tops failed (a common corrosion hot-spot) and tore the inner wings, which made the spot-welding fail on the outers. Odd sort of repair, though ... I imagine the wings were rotten round the headlights, so were only replaced at the front.
Being the USA, I expect a law suit is pending!
From my Rootes days I can remember that these wings, as was the case with most older cars, were made in sections and then seam welded together; these welds were butt welds, the weakest of all welds, and the most difficult to do, but seen as the correct weld for this particular job simply because there was no overlap to trap moisture and it could be thinly leaded over to be totally invisible as a join.
What has happened here, bearing in mind this is the States, is that the car has come over a yump and came hard down on the bump stops, and they of course might have been missing, at the precise location of a square and slightly raised manhole cover.
The two front wishbone pivots have stopped dead in the manhole edge and the chassis legs have kinked at their weakest point.
There is a weak spot just there in a Tiger: it's not, as most people think, simply a Sunbeam Alpine with a Ford V8 dropped in.
It doesn't fit, coz I've tried it!
Both the main chassis rails are modified to take the extra bulk and width of the V8, the result being that the chassis legs have a kink manufactured in them which tends to give in a head on.
When it does it just rips the front wings apart at their weakest point.
I'm not sure about the speed mind you; who the hell does 15MPH in a Tiger??!!
What has happened here, bearing in mind this is the States, is that the car has come over a yump and came hard down on the bump stops, and they of course might have been missing, at the precise location of a square and slightly raised manhole cover.
The two front wishbone pivots have stopped dead in the manhole edge and the chassis legs have kinked at their weakest point.
There is a weak spot just there in a Tiger: it's not, as most people think, simply a Sunbeam Alpine with a Ford V8 dropped in.
It doesn't fit, coz I've tried it!
Both the main chassis rails are modified to take the extra bulk and width of the V8, the result being that the chassis legs have a kink manufactured in them which tends to give in a head on.
When it does it just rips the front wings apart at their weakest point.
I'm not sure about the speed mind you; who the hell does 15MPH in a Tiger??!!
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