Tigers Running
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Not sure there is a count... but must be around 3500 survivors in various states of driving, sleeping and rusting... then there are the hybrids...
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Obvious answer... yes.
USA would have the largest.. and they got basically 80% of production. Uk has a reaosnable stash of cars still and a bunch of ex-USA. Down under between AU and NZ we have around 120ish cars. There are cars in EU, Germany has a good little club, France and Switzerland have a few and I know of cars in Spain. There are a couple in Brazil and I know of 5 tigers in Japan and 1 in India.
USA would have the largest.. and they got basically 80% of production. Uk has a reaosnable stash of cars still and a bunch of ex-USA. Down under between AU and NZ we have around 120ish cars. There are cars in EU, Germany has a good little club, France and Switzerland have a few and I know of cars in Spain. There are a couple in Brazil and I know of 5 tigers in Japan and 1 in India.
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Nihon
Hey Michael if you have any contact info for owners in japan... Kindly share with me. I'm in Toyama now but couple half days in Tokyo upcoming. Or maybe they're near motegi twin rings? Would love to say hi.
Google gave me some silly Aussie dealer
http://www.j-spec.com.au/featured/1964-Sunbeam-Tiger-convertible-14000.html
Hey Michael if you have any contact info for owners in japan... Kindly share with me. I'm in Toyama now but couple half days in Tokyo upcoming. Or maybe they're near motegi twin rings? Would love to say hi.
Google gave me some silly Aussie dealer
http://www.j-spec.com.au/featured/1964-Sunbeam-Tiger-convertible-14000.html
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Been a while since i have had contact,, will see if i can dig the details up. There is a guy in Tokyo with a red MKI that has a website about his car.
Also an Aussie living in Japan has posted a bunch of pictures and a few videos on Flickr of MKI Tigers and a MKII in Japan.
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ZAF
Have sent quite a few fabricated parts to South Africa, so we know there are a bunch there . . .
Have sent quite a few fabricated parts to South Africa, so we know there are a bunch there . . .
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I forgot the SthAfrica club.. I actually got their newsletter last week so bad me! They also CKD'd Tigers there. There are about 6 SthAf CKD Tigers in AU.. and i know of 2 stateside and a couple in the UK... would be interesting to know where they all are now.
Tigers in the UK
I don't know about how many Tigers there are in the World but the same question was asked on STOC about number of survivors in the UK. Of the 875 car delivered to UK customers it appears there may be as many as 500 - 550 remaining but only about 330'ish are known to the DVLA. Of these only 250 - 275'ish are registered to be driven on the roads.
See the following link:
http://www.sunbeamtiger.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5723&sid=01aebc777268e958e0e6273e97be23d0
Bugman
I don't know about how many Tigers there are in the World but the same question was asked on STOC about number of survivors in the UK. Of the 875 car delivered to UK customers it appears there may be as many as 500 - 550 remaining but only about 330'ish are known to the DVLA. Of these only 250 - 275'ish are registered to be driven on the roads.
See the following link:
http://www.sunbeamtiger.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5723&sid=01aebc777268e958e0e6273e97be23d0
Bugman
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Non Op
Or non operation is what they are called in Cali. It was really stupid you had to pay every year to keep it on a non operational status. Somewhere in the mid to late 90's they changed it to a one time fee. If it wasn't non oped it could be dropped off the computer. For some silly reason they could not keep all the vins and plate numbers in their puny systems. It worked out for most as back fees including the yearly non op fee or the unpaid registration fees were wiped clean.
Some money grubbing politician figured that Cali. was loosing big bucks and they stopped letting about 4 year back registration vehicles get a pass on their back fees. People buy cars motorcycles and even trailers and can get a rude awakening when going to title the vehicle.
The reason I bring this up was their is no such record of non op or off computer record numbers here in Cali. or I would guess most of the colonies
We basically have a wait and see method of seeing what gets pulled out of a Barn or most likely a outlying area where cars are left to melt back into the earth.
The Brits do a way better job at it which also makes it harder to allow a car to slip below the radar and be re created. In the old days AAA or other non law enforcement types were allowed to verify vin numbers and re title cars. Not any more it is almost impossible to not have a trailer trip to C.H.P. inspections and verifications. Possibly why eBay has given us some Tigers lately with no vin or a badly home brewed one and other questionable but real Tigers.
Maybe I strayed away a little from your question but it is way more than checking registry, and sealed DMV records, "remember Rebecca Schaeffer," a hottie Hollywood actress that was DMV record stalked and killed. You used to be able to march in the DMV and get all sorts of info. not anymore!
The club and meetings get old members that show at events like Woodley Park that claim to have 5 or more cars, and stories abound like "oh the first one I bought cost me $350 dollars," but none of them run. Other serial hoarders are in the club as well but I have not seen those guys in any Sunbeam yet. Outside of a Tigers United the most I have seen at any event was at Woodley park if it doesn't rain its fab.
Time stands still for no man or machine, as we say in the boating world use em or loose em as father time rots em apart.
Or non operation is what they are called in Cali. It was really stupid you had to pay every year to keep it on a non operational status. Somewhere in the mid to late 90's they changed it to a one time fee. If it wasn't non oped it could be dropped off the computer. For some silly reason they could not keep all the vins and plate numbers in their puny systems. It worked out for most as back fees including the yearly non op fee or the unpaid registration fees were wiped clean.
Some money grubbing politician figured that Cali. was loosing big bucks and they stopped letting about 4 year back registration vehicles get a pass on their back fees. People buy cars motorcycles and even trailers and can get a rude awakening when going to title the vehicle.
The reason I bring this up was their is no such record of non op or off computer record numbers here in Cali. or I would guess most of the colonies
We basically have a wait and see method of seeing what gets pulled out of a Barn or most likely a outlying area where cars are left to melt back into the earth.The Brits do a way better job at it which also makes it harder to allow a car to slip below the radar and be re created. In the old days AAA or other non law enforcement types were allowed to verify vin numbers and re title cars. Not any more it is almost impossible to not have a trailer trip to C.H.P. inspections and verifications. Possibly why eBay has given us some Tigers lately with no vin or a badly home brewed one and other questionable but real Tigers.
Maybe I strayed away a little from your question but it is way more than checking registry, and sealed DMV records, "remember Rebecca Schaeffer," a hottie Hollywood actress that was DMV record stalked and killed. You used to be able to march in the DMV and get all sorts of info. not anymore!
The club and meetings get old members that show at events like Woodley Park that claim to have 5 or more cars, and stories abound like "oh the first one I bought cost me $350 dollars," but none of them run. Other serial hoarders are in the club as well but I have not seen those guys in any Sunbeam yet. Outside of a Tigers United the most I have seen at any event was at Woodley park if it doesn't rain its fab.
Time stands still for no man or machine, as we say in the boating world use em or loose em as father time rots em apart.
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cobrakidz
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About 5+ years ago a friend of mine passed away--I had to sell both of his Tigers for his widow. 1 was registered and the other was never registered when he brought it over from the UK 20 years prior. So it goes to show they are out there hiding....haha. and both were right hand drive.
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I know of a Tiger in Bogata, Columbia, newly restored by owner.
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