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For sure they came into the port at LA(Long Beach?).
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The 80% (I think) is just a number out of his A$$...
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He was back east or Canada, he didn't get one new, just many years later (I think).
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The hot rod scene was California and the weather definetly favors a convertible.
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But he was right, most came to the west coast due to demand. That is why you
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see more MK2s back east, by the time they came out, everyone in the west already
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had a MK1 with a 289 (info from the late Paul Reisentz).
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Gary
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On 08/23/2022 10:47 AM steve wick via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net> wrote:
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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.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong>From:</strong> Tigers <tigers-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of Brian Glenn via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net><br><strong>Sent:</strong> Monday, August 22, 2022 9:58 PM<br><strong>To:</strong> Tigers Den <tigers@autox.team.net><br><strong>Subject:</strong> [Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information</span>
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All,
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I was reviewing a well researched 1995 article <em>What is a Sunbeam Tiger?</em> listed on the STOA website by Von Levandowski from Cobra Magazine.
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In it, he states "<span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">While about 80% of the original Tiger sales were located on the west coast, ownership opportunities now exist nationwide.</span>"
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While I knew the majority of Tigers were delivered to California, I had never heard it quantified.
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Our Tiger research has always lacked data on delivery ports and retail outlet distribution.
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Does anyone know from where this 80% figure was obtained?
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Does anyone have additional or contradictory information/documentation on ports of entry and retail distribution?
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Thanks in advance.
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Cheers
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