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<div class="userEdit" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">I thought Tigers were sent to the dealers who ordered them. For instance, in little old Vermont there were very few dealers who sold foreign cars. Yankees wanted US steel. But, I believe there were at least 2 Sunbeam dealers. The larger one was in a city of 35,000 people. The 2nd was in a town of about 2,000. Needless to say these places sold very few Sunbeams. But, I know that the larger dealer did sell a few. If these dealers weren't ordering Tigers, they wouldn't be shipping them to Vermont (or any other location that didn't have buyers). Apparently Calif. had buyers.</span></div>
<br>In a message dated 8/23/2022 4:34:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, garywinblad@comcast.net writes:
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<div>For sure they came into the port at LA(Long Beach?). </div>
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<div class="yiv4189640217default-style">The 80% (I think) is just a number out of his A$$... </div>
<div class="yiv4189640217default-style">He was back east or Canada, he didn't get one new, just many years later (I think). </div>
<div class="yiv4189640217default-style">The hot rod scene was California and the weather definetly favors a convertible. </div>
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<div class="yiv4189640217default-style">But he was right, most came to the west coast due to demand. That is why you </div>
<div class="yiv4189640217default-style">see more MK2s back east, by the time they came out, everyone in the west already </div>
<div class="yiv4189640217default-style">had a MK1 with a 289 (info from the late Paul Reisentz). </div>
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<div>On 08/23/2022 10:47 AM steve wick via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net> wrote:</div>
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<div id="yiv4189640217divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><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 clear="none"><strong>Sent:</strong> Monday, August 22, 2022 9:58 PM<br clear="none"><strong>To:</strong> Tigers Den <tigers@autox.team.net><br clear="none"><strong>Subject:</strong> [Tigers] Original Tiger Port of Entry and Sales Information</span>
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<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
<div dir="ltr">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>"</div>
<div dir="ltr">While I knew the majority of Tigers were delivered to California, I had never heard it quantified.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Our Tiger research has always lacked data on delivery ports and retail outlet distribution.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Does anyone know from where this 80% figure was obtained?</div>
<div dir="ltr">Does anyone have additional or contradictory information/documentation on ports of entry and retail distribution?</div>
<div dir="ltr">Thanks in advance.</div>
<div dir="ltr">Cheers</div>
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