[DeTomaso] NPC - Andy Rooney's Tiger

[Bill Lewis]

Along those same lines, one of my older-age piths is, "One gets old when one loses their music!"  When you are a teen, your ride with the music up blaring, beating time on the steering wheel.  The next stage is riding with the music on.  Then at some point you switch to Talk Radio/Sports.  Next might be some type of specialty (classical?).  Next to last is the music is so low that you can bearly hear it.  Last - no sound on at all.  After last: no sound receptor is on!      ----BILL Lewis

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From: fresnofinches at aol.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:02:08 -0500
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC - Andy Rooney's Tiger

All,



In the latest issue of Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car there is an article about Andy Rooney's (yes, that lovable curmudgeon from 60 Minutes) 1966 260-powered Tiger.



He bought it new, used it as his daily driver (Yes, in New York City) and never sold it. His daughter had it 'restored',

but sadly Andy passed prior to the restoration's completion.



Seems he rarely mentioned his Tiger ownership, but that didn't mean it was not important to him, as this 1998 quote proves:



"It's a sad fact of life that gratification is usually the death of desire. Once you have the object of desire you don't want it anymore. 

For years I wanted a little sports car with lots of power. That was slow coming, too. In 1966, I finally got what I wanted, a Sunbeam

Tiger, British racing green, with a Ford V-8 engine under its bonnet. I still own it, and it weakens my theory about gratification and

desire because I like having it today as much as I did the day I bought it."



That was after 32 years of ownership, when Andy was about 79 years old.



Sounds like he was cut from a similar cloth as most of us Pantera owners.



I always liked Andy. Now, I like him more. :-)



Larry





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