Yeah, wishful thinking on my part I guess.
Mine too !!
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Yeah, wishful thinking on my part I guess.
My brother had an Alpine. It could make it up to eighty if you could keep from dropping large parts (like the generator or even the bell housing) out on the road first.A friend in high school had a Sunbeam Alpine - it would occasionally make half that speed.
Ocassionally.
The sunbeam was a very fun to drive car , I am from Colorado so twisty mountain roads are what matters to me the handaling of the tiger was poor because of the weate , streat line the tiger hands down , the v6 sounds like a good balance though , I would like to push one on a track .
As a kid I considered myself a gearhead This one escaped my radar though. I remember the triumphs, the mgs, the only sunbeams I remember couldn't do 100mph unless they were dropped from a cargo plane
I always thought the triumphs (tr6,7,8 were kinda cool)
Hey wait, I'm pretty sure njcanuck has a sunbeam. Not sure which one. Maybe an alpine
That would be Hillman Minx, and not a British Leyland product. Sunbeam was part of the Rootes Group, along with Hillman, Humber, Singer, Talbot, Commer and Karrier. Later purchased by Chrysler. Various models were imported to the US, like the Hillman Imp rear-engine compact, the Humber Snipe and Super Snipe, Commer camper van, etc.
Lots o' info on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootes_Group
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