[Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information

Wed Aug 24 14:20:41 MDT 2022

Don’t know if this will attach to the list, but here’s the dealer list for 1966. 

Kirk

From: Tigers <tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Will Seay via Tigers
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 7:53 AM
To: Stu <sabre2tgr at gmail.com>
Cc: Tiger List List <tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information

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 <mailto:Tigers at embarqmail.com> 

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 9:34 PM Stu <sabre2tgr at gmail.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net> > on behalf of Brian Glenn via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> >
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022 9:58 PM
To: Tigers Den <tigers at autox.team.net <mailto: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 

_______________________________________________ 

tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net>  

Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html 
Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers http://autox.team.net/archive 

Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/garywinblad@comcast.net 

_______________________________________________

tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> 

Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers http://autox.teamnet/archive <http://autox.team.net/archive> 

Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/aballard@ix.netcom.com

_______________________________________________

tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> 

Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers http://autox.team.net/archive

Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/sabre2tgr@gmail.com

_______________________________________________

tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> 

Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers http://autox.team.net/archive

Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/tigers@embarqmail.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/tigers/attachments/20220824/915beacd/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Sunbeam dealer list '66.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 111557 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/tigers/attachments/20220824/915beacd/attachment-0001.pdf>