A big Happy Birthday to Sir Cliff Richard OBE, born #OnThisDay in 1940.
📷 Cliff with his brand new Sunbeam Alpine in 1958 (Harry Hammond).
#CliffRichard#SunbeamAlpine
Sunbeam Tiger - 4.7 V8
The Sunbeam Alpine was a compact roadster, just shy of 4 meters long. It came with a 1.5 litre engine, yet someone at Rootes came up with the idea of putting a Ford V8 in it. It was called the Sunbeam Tiger. In the Mark I, it was a 4.3L with 165 hp, the Mark II had it's engine upgraded to the Ford 389 V8 (4.7l). Unfortunatly, Rootes was already bought by Chrysler at that time, so the Ford-powered Tiger was retired after just three years and 7083 cars built.
Today is #JamesBondDay, marking the anniversary of the release of Dr. No, the first official James Bond film, in 1962.
And here’s the car that started it all, a Sunbeam Alpine Series II, in marine blue.
#JamesBond#The007#SunbeamAlpine
Sad news. RIP Peter Procter, racer and rally driver, who passed away earlier today, aged 94.
Peter at the wheel of the Lister Sunbeam Tiger Le Mans in 1964, with co-driver Jimmy Blumer, and reunited with the Tiger at the @goodwoodrevival.
#RIPPeterProcter#Sunbeam#SunbeamTiger
#SunbeamSunday anyone? Here’s Ken Miles’ iconic Sunbeam Alpine, complete with 260 Ford V8, the first of three ‘Tigers’ that he and Carroll Shelby built for the Rootes Group.
📷 Valerie Samuels outside Carroll Shelby’s Venice workshop (Allen R. Kuhn, 1964).
#SunbeamTiger
60 yrs ago today, the first 260ci V8 Sunbeam Tiger rolled off the production line. Carroll Shelby, who built the first manual prototype less than 12 months earlier, received a royalty for every production Tiger built.
#SunbeamTiger#RootesGroup
Back in the 60’s & 70’s everyone, me included wanted one of these ! A Sunbeam Rapier fastback h120, nearest I got was a Hillman Minx !
Thus 1972 model owned by Simon Oborne from Mid Norton is Green with Restoration by previous owner 1725 holbay engine