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barn find
Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
What do you call a collection of rusty Singers, Hillmans, Simcas, and Sunbeams, assembled as part of an "outdoor museum" in Waukesha, and all for sale cheap? Wisconsin Death Trip? More »
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Comment by jduffy13: You guys should do a "Name the Top 5 Cars you'd like to Find in a Barn" contest. It would be... 19 Responses | Other threads
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barn find
Priceless Cache Of Thirty Vintage Cars Found In Rural UK Town
Village mechanic Jimmy Blanche collected antique cars for decades on his land. The decaying but complete and restorable Daimlers, Singers and Austins will be auctioned off in April. More »
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By Peter OroszComment by Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable: "Restoration project"? In that case, I can make somebody a helluva deal on a rare '56 Merc Montclair Phaeton.. 8 Responses | Other threads
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racing
Say Goodbye To Workplace Productivity: The 1965 Targa Florio Endurance Race
If you liked the vintage documentary about the 1958 Alpine Cup, you'll just have to blow off your job for the next 40 minutes or so to watch this '65 Targa Florio documentary. More »
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Comment by acarr260: I guess these are on YouTube... my workplace web filter already blocks that site. Thanks anyway. Now it... 6 Responses | Other threads
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project car hell
PCH, Rootes Group Challenges The Prancing Horse: Sunbeam Venezia or Ferrari 308 GT4?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! You want an exotic European Hell Project, do you? Well, who doesn't?
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Comment by FuzzlessPlushroom, ya fuckin' berk: Down to business, here. Sunbeam, you think to yourself. What the Hell is a "Sunbeam"? You've got a Sunbeam coffee grinder,... 16 Responses | Other threads
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happy bastille day
Renaults, Citroens And Talbots... Oh My! French Cars On Bastille Day
Happy Bastille Day! In honor of the 219th anniversary of the symbolic beginning of modern France, our very own Frenchman Franzouse, has collected these photos from the "Course de Cote" vintage hill climb in St Geniez D'olt. Each car is a unique part of French rallying history, and the gallery includes a Renault R5 Turbo 2, a Citroen Visa rally car and a Talbot Sunbeam. And that's just what we can name off the top of our head. More »
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Comment by mewshew: As a Frenchman, I would suggest you forget about most of those, excepted for the Turbo 2 and maybe the... more » | Other threads
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retro
1927 Land Speed Record Setter: Sunbeam 1000
Henry Seagrave is something of a legendary post-WWI figure in the world of land speed records. When Henry returned from the Great War, he set out to crush records on both land and sea. His first achievement came in March 1926, behind the wheel of a four-liter Sunbeam nicknamed Ladybird. Top speed: 152.33 mph. That record only held for about a month before it fell the following April to Parry Thomas, who managed 172.33 mph. Determined to win back the title, Seagrave lobbied the Sunbeam company to produce a car capable of 200 mph. More »
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By Ben WojdylaComment by Stoatmaster: Literary/super-hoon crossover alert. Dylan Thomas drank and wrote in Laugharne, on the Pembrokeshire coast. This seaside town is at one end of... more » | Other threads
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retro
Breathalyzers Be Blown, He'll Have Seen The Red Light!
After seeing the showroom-condition MGC-GT a couple weeks back, we were inspired to dig up this Pathe newsreel of the 1967 London Motor Show. The theme of this show appeared to be drunk driving, judging from the narrator's jokes on the subject. Lots of great vehicles here, with the real standout being the Lamborghini Marzal, the car that became the Espada.
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Comment by yellofury :bigger longer and more yellow: ahh that describes me to the T "very cheap ...very Japanese" I remember when Japanese imports were looked as inferior build quality... more » | Other threads
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retro
Sunbeam Rapier Fastback: Not Barracuda-Inspired, Really!
The Sunbeam Rapier Fastback's designer claimed he wasn't ripping off the look of the early Plymouth Barracuda (and maybe he's telling the truth) but so what if he was? How can you not love a British Barracuda? Too bad Rootes couldn't talk corporate overlord Chrysler out of some Slant Sixes while they were at it, since the Rapier's 1725cc mill didn't really measure up in the grunt or reliability departments. Made from 1967 through 1976 (and marketed in the States as the Alpine GT) the little Rapiercuda had style- and oil- to burn, and their present-day owner's club has one of the slickest car-club websites I've ever seen. More »
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Comment by junkman: The slant six would have been cool in this car but the 273 V8 with a 4 bbl from the... more » | Other threads
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news
The 10 Greatest Bond Cars? ForbesAutos is at it Again
No freaking 2CV? No freaking 2CV?. This list is a freaking travesty. And it's after the jump. We'll take the 2000GT in a pinch, though... More »
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Comment by TroubleonWheels: Dear David Thomas, The ForbesAutos Bond feature was merely updated from last year to include the DBS. How cute that... more » | Other threads
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custom cars/hot rods
Hold That Tiger: Custom 465hp Sunbeam
The other day we were on I-5 in the Central Valley (yeah, we know, all of our best stories start that way), when we saw a guy cruising along in a Tiger and thought to ourselves, "Goldangit, that's purt'close the perfect Jalopnik vehicle American heart, British body and suitably obscure." So, if Denton wants to set us up with a hundred-and-twenty-five large, we'd gladly drop it on this subtle custom job. The 289 is punched out to 331 and topped off with free-breathing AFR heads. It's got a T5 into a 'Vette pumpkin, a 22-gallon fuel cell and a Halon fire-suppression system to keep the whole thing from going up in smoke. The rear tires, however, are another matter. [Thanks to Carlo for the tip.] More »
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Comment by Designpad: A stock Shelby Sunbeam Tiger indeed has several shortcomings including the front cross-member. As a seasoned Automotive designer and a... more » | Other threads
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news
Not an Sunbeam Alpine, It's a Russian Durways Cowboy
Thanks to our new buddy Max, we've identified the last of the bogus Sunbeams from the scam we uncovered earlier today. It's the Durways Cowboy, a new Russian SUV based on the same underpinnings of the Romanian ARO military vehicle — you know it as the Cross Lander 244X. Max says it's built in the small town of Cherkessk near the Chechen border. As far as we can decipher without a working knowledge of cyrillic, it's powered by a 2.0 liter Peugeot turbodiesel engine, and is not — repeat not a Sunbeam. Click for more pics. More »
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Comment by ca6: I see Geländewagen as well. Looks like the 2L Pug-unit has to work hard though :) more » | Other threads
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news
SCAMMED: Sunbeam Comeback Is Crap
Uh, about that Sunbeam post. Looks like we've stumbled into the Web of an Internet scammer. Thanks to our astute readers, we've identified two of the alleged Sunbeams as relatively obscure bespoke models. The "Tiger" (no, that's not your real name) is actually a Swedish roadster, the Josse Car Indigo 3000, while the "Digatto" is the Slovakia-built K-1 Attack (kitcar) or Attack F-type (turnkey car). We're still working on the Alpine, but we're betting it's not an Alpine. Those who may have been interested in a distributorship should likely keep that checkbook close to the vest. To those miserable fucks who're pulling this, may you be covered in transmission fluid and forced to recite Joyce's "The Dubliners" from back to front. That'll learn ya. [Thanks to Etienne and Chris for the tips.] More » -
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Sunbeam May Be Looking for a Comeback in 2006
The Sunbeam Tiger was an icon of the 1960s that fit a pattern of its day — that is, British sports cars refitted with Ford V8s, making them into unlikely supercars. Now, the company that once shipped the Tiger and its four-banger brother, the Alpine to the US by the boatload — or a company with rights to that company's name — is aiming for a stateside return. A company called Sunbeam Automotive recently surfaced on the Webosphere, showing off new models: the Tiger (pictured) the Digatto, a more radical roadster, and the Alpine — oddly, not a roadster, but a box-like SUV, and said to be the first model planned for US export, according to the company's Web site. A whois search revealed the owner of the Sunbeam Automotive site to be a company called Nuvano Technologies, LLC, of Dallas, Texas, to which Google says, "beh." Likely its an adjunct company charged with finding US distributors. We'll keep an eye on this one. [Update: Achtung, baby, it's a scam!.] More »
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Comment by ca6: For more info on the 'Sunbeam Tiger', check out the homepage of Jösse cars (http://www.jossecar.com). The 'Sunbeam Tiger' is in fact... more » | Other threads
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