Showed my car again...won again.

[Jake D]

Congrats!!
Parking next to that hideous yellow Mustang certainly didn't hurt.

Sweet-jeezus, I hate Mustangs. Talk about a "chick" car. How in the hell can they call it a "muscle" car if the #1 demographic for buying these piles of shit are 50 year old women??? /rant

[Velocewest]

Wow. I drop out for a while and instead of an e28 board, it's become Duke's parade of Cobra wanna-be's.

[Duke]

Correct me, if I am wrong but the Tiger was Shelby's contemporary to the Cobra.

Not sure what you mean by "contemporary" but, Shelby went to some length to make sure it would not compete with his Cobra's. That’s one of the reasons why the Tiger had a 260 when all of the Mustangs and Cobras were powered by the 289.

The two Tigers that competed in the 64 Le Mans against Shelby's Cobras both had engine failure within three hours. Shelby America had provided the engines for the Tigers. A interesting bit of history, the Rootes Group (parent company of Sunbeam) paid Shelby $5 royalty for every Tiger sold. That came out to ~$35,000 in 1960’s money. Not bad considering that the Cobra sold for $5,000 a piece.

In the day, the Tiger was known as the "poor man's" Cobra.

[stuartinmn]

The first 75 Mark I Cobras were equipped with the 260. They didn't start building GT350 Mustangs until 1965, and by that time the 260 had been replaced with the 289.

[Duke]

The first 75 Mark I Cobras were equipped with the 260.

Yes, you are correct.... but they were the 335 HP Shelby modified 260s. The 260s put in the Tiger were the stock 2V 165 HP lump.

The Tiger sported the 260 untill late 1966. The Tiger MK II got the 289 in 1967 and there were only around ~500 MK IIs made.