[Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information

[Stu]

For Allan:  TBON lists 4 dealers in Atlanta, three of which allegedly
carried Sunbeam products.

In the list of dealers for Massachusetts, there is also a "Boston
Warehouse" mentioned.  The address is on a pier at the waterfront, what
today is the Black Falcon cruise terminal.  So it appears that Boston was
also a POE for Rootes products.  Odd, since I don't see any other mention
of a warehouse in other likely ports, NY, Baltimore, Savannah, Long Beach,
San Francisco, etc.

Also odd, there are three pages of dealer listings for California, but
almost 5 pages of dealer listings for the NY/NJ area.  Yet according to the
cited statistic, most of the Tigers went west.

Stu

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 8:41 PM Allan Ballard <aballard at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for this very interesting commentary.
>
> I’ve always wondered how Sunbeam distribution across the country took
> place.  My Mk1a is
> An Oklahoma car for example.
>
> Here in Atlanta there were only a few Tigers on the streets in the 60’s. I
> don’t know if there
> Was a dealership or not. Used Tigers and Alpines were sold out of the
> Atlanta newspaper’s classified
> ads for “British cars.”
>
> That’s where I found my first Tiger, a Midnight Blue Mk1.
>
> I recall reading about MkII’s but seeing just one. I’ve come to appreciate
> MkII styling
> But back in the day the absence of side “stripe” left me skeptical.
>
> Allan Ballard
> -Atlanta
>
> On Aug 23, 2022, at 2:07 PM, GARY WINBLAD <garywinblad at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> For sure they came into the port at LA(Long Beach?).
>
> The 80% (I think) is just a number out of his A$$...
> He was back east or Canada, he didn't get one new, just many years later
> (I think).
> The hot rod scene was California and the weather definetly favors a
> convertible.
>
> But he was right, most came to the west coast due to demand.  That is why
> you
> see more MK2s back east, by the time they came out, everyone in the west
> already
> had a MK1  with a 289 (info from the late Paul Reisentz).
> Gary
>
> On 08/23/2022 10:47 AM steve wick via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> I don't have definitive information, but the cars could have been all
> delivered to east coast ports, then transported from there. Where they
> would have been sold was just a function of where the dealers in the
> network were located.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Brian Glenn
> via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net>
> *Sent:* Monday, August 22, 2022 9:58 PM
> *To:* Tigers Den <tigers at autox.team.net>
> *Subject:* [Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information
>
> All,
> I was reviewing a well researched 1995 article *What is a Sunbeam Tiger?*
> listed on the STOA website by Von Levandowski from Cobra Magazine.
> In it, he states "While about 80% of the original Tiger sales were
> located on the west coast, ownership opportunities now exist nationwide."
> While I knew the majority of Tigers were delivered to California, I had
> never heard it quantified.
> Our Tiger research has always lacked data on delivery ports and retail
> outlet distribution.
>
> Does anyone know from where this 80% figure was obtained?
> Does anyone have additional or contradictory information/documentation on
> ports of entry and retail distribution?
> Thanks in advance.
> Cheers
> B
>
> Brian Glenn
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