[Tigers] Le Mans Tiger Gallery

[Will Seay]

Uncle Wally was right.  At least, if my experience was in any way typical, he
was.  I bought my MK1A new in '67.  It was one of two Tigers that the
(east-coast) dealer had left on his lot from the previous year.  The car was
titled as 1966-1967.  I don't think that the dealer knew that there was a model
change (to the MKII) in '67, and I don't think that his dealership ever saw or
sold a MKII.  I suspect that the reason that Tigers moved so slowly on the east
coast was because the dealers didn't promote the car like it was promoted on the
west coast. 

Will Seay 382001570
wseay at embarqmail.com

-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Larry Paulick
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 4:49 PM
To: tigers at autox.team.net
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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