We on the east coast have less sunny days, so we take every advantage of
the weather and wind in our face, or hair if we have it.
Larry
On 12/2/11 9:40 AM, e.coiner@cox.net wrote:
> Perhaps.
>
> I have book on Ford Mustang production. Year after year (1967 to 1973
>anyway) more convertible Mustangs were sold in the Boston sales district than
>Los Angeles. Who knew? Maybe they were all Cape Cod summer cars.
>
>
> ---- Buck Trippel<BuckTrippel@Verizon.net> wrote:
>> 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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