<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">For Allan: TBON lists 4 dealers in Atlanta, three of which allegedly carried Sunbeam products.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Stu</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 8:41 PM Allan Ballard <<a href="mailto:aballard@ix.netcom.com">aballard@ix.netcom.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Thanks for this very interesting commentary.<div><br></div><div>I’ve always wondered how Sunbeam distribution across the country took place. My Mk1a is</div><div>An Oklahoma car for example.</div><div><br></div><div>Here in Atlanta there were only a few Tigers on the streets in the 60’s. I don’t know if there</div><div>Was a dealership or not. Used Tigers and Alpines were sold out of the Atlanta newspaper’s classified</div><div>ads for “British cars.” </div><div><br></div><div>That’s where I found my first Tiger, a Midnight Blue Mk1.</div><div><br></div><div>I recall reading about MkII’s but seeing just one. I’ve come to appreciate MkII styling</div><div>But back in the day the absence of side “stripe” left me skeptical.</div><div><br></div><div>Allan Ballard</div><div>-Atlanta</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 23, 2022, at 2:07 PM, GARY WINBLAD <<a href="mailto:garywinblad@comcast.net" target="_blank">garywinblad@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>
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For sure they came into the port at LA(Long Beach?).
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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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had a MK1 with a 289 (info from the late Paul Reisentz).
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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;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><strong>From:</strong> Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers-bounces@autox.team.net</a>> on behalf of Brian Glenn via Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>><br><strong>Sent:</strong> Monday, August 22, 2022 9:58 PM<br><strong>To:</strong> Tigers Den <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>><br><strong>Subject:</strong> [Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information</span>
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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:rgb(10,10,10);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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