[Tigers] Le Mans Tiger Gallery

[Larry Paulick]

We on the east coast have less sunny days, so we take every advantage of 
the weather and wind in our face, or hair if we have it.

Larry

On 12/2/11 9:40 AM, e.coiner at cox.net wrote:
> Perhaps.
>
> I have book on Ford Mustang production.  Year after year (1967 to 1973 anyway) more convertible Mustangs were sold in the Boston sales district than Los Angeles. Who knew?  Maybe they were all Cape Cod summer cars.
>
>
> ---- Buck Trippel<BuckTrippel at Verizon.net>  wrote:
>> Maybe the east/west demand difference had something to do with convertibles
>> "in the warm California sun"?
>>
>> Buck
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Larry Paulick"<lpaulick1 at verizon.net>
>> To:<tigers at autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Le Mans Tiger Gallery
>>
>>
>>> Buck, as you are aware, Wally Swift was the Chrysler rep to Sunbeam and
>>> had the eastern territory responsibility.
>>>
>>> He told me in the last year, Tiger were just sitting at the dealers, and
>>> he had his son, a HS student, drive the car for a while, and then they
>>> sold it as a Used Car.
>>>
>>> East coast, West coast, was different as far as Tiger were concerned.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>> On 12/1/11 11:50 AM, Buck Trippel wrote:
>>>> Back in the day, Scooter Patrick was one of the owners of PAM Autos in
>>>> Manhattan Beach, CA where they sold the entire Rootes line. (On the
>>>> weekends Scooter raced Otto Zipper's Porsche's.)  Scooter says the Tigers
>>>> sold themselves and his only limitation was getting Rootes to supply
>>>> them. He has said there was sort of a quota and that he'd  have to take
>>>> so many Imps and Alpines to before he could get one Tiger.
>>>>
>>>> Like Mayf, Scooter thought the Coupe idea was a good one so he "fabbed" a
>>>> prototype from a production Tiger using something like an Astra(?)
>>>> fiberglass hard top (which I believe deleted the trunk lid) and equipped
>>>> his prototype with a lot of the go fast LAT options. Scooter submitted
>>>> his prototype to Rootes hoping that Rootes would put it into production.
>>>> Again Rootes rejected the idea.
>>>>
>>>> To this day Scooter wonders what happened to his coupe/fastback
>>>> prototype. At this summer's TU at the Queen Mary he asked if anyone knew
>>>> anything about its subsequent history. No one there had any information.
>>>> Anyone on the List have any clues we can pass on to him?
>>>>
>>>> bt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At the time Scooter
>>>> was --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "Larry Mayfield"<drmayf at mayfco.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:06 AM
>>>> To: "Bill Rogers Motorsport Memories"<milward at roadrunner.com>
>>>> Cc: "Tigers"<tigers at autox.team.net>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Le Mans Tiger Gallery
>>>>
>>>>> Sad that the car in this configuration never made it to production. I
>>>>> would have bought one for sure.  Very nice looking, well balanced and
>>>>> heck, if it had had a period of development with lots of buyers and
>>>>> racers, the company might have even survived.
>>>>>
>>>>> mayf
>>>>>
>>>>> ______________________________
>>>>> drmayf
>>>>> Worlds Fastest Sunbeam, period.
>>>>> 204.913 mph flying mile
>>>>> 210.779 mph exit speed
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/30/2011 8:40 AM, Bill Rogers Motorsport Memories wrote:
>>>>>> http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/5013/Sunbeam-Tiger-Lister-Le-Mans-Coupe.html
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