Maybe the east/west demand difference had something to do with convertibles
"in the warm California sun"?
Buck
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Paulick" <lpaulick1@verizon.net>
To: <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Le Mans Tiger Gallery
> Buck, as you are aware, Wally Swift was the Chrysler rep to Sunbeam and
> had the eastern territory responsibility.
>
> He told me in the last year, Tiger were just sitting at the dealers, and
> he had his son, a HS student, drive the car for a while, and then they
> sold it as a Used Car.
>
> East coast, West coast, was different as far as Tiger were concerned.
>
> Larry
>
> On 12/1/11 11:50 AM, Buck Trippel wrote:
>> Back in the day, Scooter Patrick was one of the owners of PAM Autos in
>> Manhattan Beach, CA where they sold the entire Rootes line. (On the
>> weekends Scooter raced Otto Zipper's Porsche's.) Scooter says the Tigers
>> sold themselves and his only limitation was getting Rootes to supply
>> them. He has said there was sort of a quota and that he'd have to take
>> so many Imps and Alpines to before he could get one Tiger.
>>
>> Like Mayf, Scooter thought the Coupe idea was a good one so he "fabbed" a
>> prototype from a production Tiger using something like an Astra(?)
>> fiberglass hard top (which I believe deleted the trunk lid) and equipped
>> his prototype with a lot of the go fast LAT options. Scooter submitted
>> his prototype to Rootes hoping that Rootes would put it into production.
>> Again Rootes rejected the idea.
>>
>> To this day Scooter wonders what happened to his coupe/fastback
>> prototype. At this summer's TU at the Queen Mary he asked if anyone knew
>> anything about its subsequent history. No one there had any information.
>> Anyone on the List have any clues we can pass on to him?
>>
>> bt
>>
>>
>> At the time Scooter
>> was --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Larry Mayfield" <drmayf@mayfco.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 9:06 AM
>> To: "Bill Rogers Motorsport Memories" <milward@roadrunner.com>
>> Cc: "Tigers" <tigers@autox.team.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Le Mans Tiger Gallery
>>
>>> Sad that the car in this configuration never made it to production. I
>>> would have bought one for sure. Very nice looking, well balanced and
>>> heck, if it had had a period of development with lots of buyers and
>>> racers, the company might have even survived.
>>>
>>> mayf
>>>
>>> ______________________________
>>> drmayf
>>> Worlds Fastest Sunbeam, period.
>>> 204.913 mph flying mile
>>> 210.779 mph exit speed
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/30/2011 8:40 AM, Bill Rogers Motorsport Memories wrote:
>>>>
>http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/5013/Sunbeam-Tiger-Lister-Le-Mans-Coupe.html
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