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HistoryBuff
Wallace Wyss

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Registered:
05/14/2013 08:53PM

Main British Car:
The Sunbeam Alpine (maybe 53 model year) with V8 near Claremont,CA
Posted by: HistoryBuff
Date: May 14, 2013 08:58PM

I am hankering to own a French styled classic car like a Delahaye but since I have a peanuts budget
I just noticed that if you take the windscreen off a '53 Sunbeam Alpine it looks like a minitature Delahaye by Figoni et Falaschi or one of those guys.
So I know there's a red one around the Inland empire with a V8 in it, maybe a 289, I was wondering if anybody knows if it's for sale or knows of a simiar hot rodded one that's running.
This is not the Sunbeam Tiger body style but the earlier one like featured in the movie It Takes a Thief with Cary Grant


Bill Young
Bill Young
Kansas City, MO
(1337 posts)

Registered:
10/23/2007 09:23AM

Main British Car:
'73 MG Midget V6 , '59 MGA I6 2.8 GM, 4.0 Jeep

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Re: The Sunbeam Alpine (maybe 53 model year) with V8 near Claremont,CA
Posted by: Bill Young
Date: July 02, 2013 09:54AM

Wallace, have you seen the article on Dan Root's car from Kansas City? [www.britishv8.org]
A combination of MGB and several years of early Ford parts, definitely has the lines of the old French cars such as you describe.


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