Sunbeam Alpine Buyers Guide

That familiar rule of thumb when buying a steel bodied classic is the body beautiful.

Sunbeam alpine buyers guide. With restored alpine s particularly it is common for a weak body shell to be. No matter how good a car looks from a distance and what price the vendor is asking you must look any prospective alpine over very carefully before purchase. The sunbeam alpine owners clubs bill barwell supplied additional information. The tiger was a high performance riff on the alpine a lovely four cylinder roadster built by the rootes group a boutique british automaker that got its.

Sunbeam alpine buyers guide sunbeam alpine. If possible take along another person who has experience of alpine s so the car can be viewed from an unbiased angle. It can be purchased from just 699 including postage uk. Professionally maintained and home garaged by current owner of 15 years.

Link your active subscription or subscribe for instant access. The first sunbeam alpine marks i and iii 1953 1955 were two seater roadsters based on the sunbeam talbot 90 saloon and which were created specifically for. American servicemen returning from europe with t series mgs inadvertently generated demand for british sports cars in their homeland and sparked an unseemly rush to produce products which would appeal to the worlds biggest automotive market. The sunbeam tiger combined the power of a ford v 8 with the sporting heritage of a british roadster in a car as adept at touring as it was racing.

The sunbeam alpine name was first used on a car that pre dates the car most of us think of when the name sunbeam alpine is mentioned. In spite of its rakish good looks the sunbeam alpine has humble underpinnings derived from the much more prosaic hillman husky estate car although its mechanical bits were adopted from the. Featured on the front cover of club magazine the horn april 2011 81000 miles. A contemporary of the mga and mgb triumph tr3 tr4 and tr250 and the austin healey 100 6 and 3000 sunbeams 1959 through 1968 alpine combined charming period style bulletproof mechanicals an accommodating interior and above average weatherproofing.

To see ads from the july 2019 issue you must be a subscriber to hemmings motor news. Those who do bring up the alpine are in on one of the best kept secrets in british sports car motoring. 1967 sunbeam alpine series v convertible in polar white. Results include ads from the june 2019 issue of hemmings motor news.

And wyatt jamie of the uks other big operation alpine west midlands ltd filled in the gaps about interior and exterior trim.