mmm, wasn't the Sunbeam was part of the Rootes group (along with Singer and Hillman - Dave Clark where are you?) and was aquired by C******r in the 60's/70's? The Tiger was one of Maxwell Smarts's 2 cars. The other was a Karmann Ghia. Alistair
>At 04:16 PM 1/28/2000 -0500, Bulley wrote: >>I thought Sunbeam was a bread...? > >Well...if you call *that* bread. It was also a car, if you're willing to >give that name to something made in Britain and equipped by the Prince of >Darkness himself. I had an Alpine Series II (had mild fins, the series III >pretty much looked like an MGB in back). From the front it looked sort of >like a 3/4 model of a '56 T-bird. Straight four with twin Solex >carburettors. They also made the same car with a 289 Ford V8 in it, called >it a Tiger. Went very well in straight lines. Lovely convertible top that >took 7 hands to fold and if you didn't do it just right it would *tear* >!! Probably another Lucas product <g>. > >d >David Beierl - Providence, RI > http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ >'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" >'85 GL "Poor Relation" > |
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