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
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>'85 GL "Poor Relation"
>