[Tigers] Tigers Digest, Vol 15, Issue 275

Wed Aug 24 08:33:59 MDT 2022

I have had a couple of British Motors license plate frames.Oceanside and Escondido. Both target marketed the Military in Northern San Diego county.  Yeah they got picked off original Alpines but maybe the pay grade sold a few officers.  Long Beach was a big Navy town . 

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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information
      (Brian Glenn)
  2. Re: Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information (Al)

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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:09:26 +0000 (UTC)
From: Brian Glenn <ora_archy at yahoo.com>
To: "tigers at autox.team.net" <tigers at autox.team.net>,  Jim Burruss
    <cburruss at wowway.com>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales
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Thanks Jim,Based on the dealership data (see previous attachment), Huntsville had a Rootes dealer, Imported and Domestic Car Service at 201 8th Str. NW.We have documentation of Tigers coming into the Houston area, which has to be Galveston port, so that matches your data.I hope you find the paperwork.Another piece to the puzzle.CheersB
Brian Glenn
 P.O. Box 578
 Julian, CA 92036-0578
 714.345.9883

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    On Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 12:39:51 AM PDT, Jim Burruss via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:  

 My 1965 Tiger was purchased new from Nick Graffeo Motors in Birmingham, 
AL, by a Huntsville, AL, resident on August 4, 1965. Presumably, 
Huntsville did not have a Sunbeam dealer at that time.? When I purchased 
the Tiger from that original owner in 1968, Chrysler had purchased a 
majority stake in Rootes, and Sunbeams were serviced locally by 
Huntsville Dodge.? I still own that Tiger.

I recall a document that said my Tiger's port of entry was in Texas, but 
I can't find that document now (which aggravates me since I'm a pack rat 
and save everything in my Tiger folder); so I can't back up that 
recollection.

Jim Burruss

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Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:28:47 -0400
From: Al <twojohnsons at cox.net>
To: Ron Fraser <rfraser at bluefrog.com>
Cc: Allan Ballard <aballard at ix.netcom.com>, GARY WINBLAD
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There were two Sunbeam dealers in Rhode Island. Picard motors in North Smithfield, and another in Newport whose name I don?t recall. 
Both long gone. 

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> On Aug 24, 2022, at 9:22 AM, Ron Fraser <rfraser at bluefrog.com> wrote:
> 
> ?
> Allan
>  
> According to TBON there were 2 Hillman and Sunbeam dealers a Service Dealer and a Singer dealer in Atlanta
> Import Motors Ltd
> Lander Auto Parts Inc.
> Buckhead Foreign Car Center Inc. ? Service Dealer
> Southeastern Sports Car Center Inc. ? Singer Dealer
>  
> West coast executive offices
> LA and San Francisco
>  
> East coast offices
> Long Island City and New York City
>  
>  
> I believe most of the MK IIs had to be shipped to Canada for some technicality. (?)
>  
> Ron Fraser
>  
>  
>  
> From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Allan Ballard
> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 5:07 PM
> To: GARY WINBLAD <garywinblad at comcast.net>; Tiger List List <tigers at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information
>  
> 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 
> P.O. Box 578 
> Julian, CA 92036-0578 
> 714.345.9883 
> 
> B9470208LRXFE GT 
> B9471101LRXFE 
> B9472615LRXFE 
> B382000846LRXFE 
> B382001212LRXFE
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