[Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information

Wed Aug 24 08:53:24 MDT 2022

I bought my Tiger from Diehl Motors -Waynesboro/Staunton VA in 1967.  Diehl
Motors was a Chrysler dealer.  My car was one of two cars that they had on
the lot.  The title for my 1A read 1966/67.  Back then it was customary for
a dealer to give foreign cars the benefit of the doubt as to whether they
were the current or the next-year model.  Obviously the dealer didn't know
that the 1967 tiger, the MKII, represented a significant model change.
I'm pretty sure that POE for my car was Baltimore, and judging from the
odometer reading on my (new) Tiger, it looks like it was driven
from Baltimore to the dealership.

Will - 382001570
Tigers at embarqmail.com

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 9:34 PM Stu <sabre2tgr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
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>> *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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