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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