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 original 260 CID engine was considered only mildly tuned at 164 hp (122 kW), and some dealers offered modified versions with up to 245 hp (183 kW) for an additional $250. But for God's sake keep it quiet from Dad [Lord Rootes] until you hear from me. Chrysler who had already invested in the Rootes Group took over the company in 1967 and production ended after only 536 MK II cars had been produced, of which only a few were for the British market.Although Rootes UK had anticipated building this car for the American market, and after all export was very important to the company finances, a good number of right hand drive cars were purchased by discerning British buyers who demanded more performance that any contemporary Triumph of MG could offer, but perhaps did could not justify the expense of an E Type Jaguar or AC cobra.All steel semi-unitary construction, 2 door sports Rusted but solid. The Sunbeam Tiger is a high-performance V8 version of the British Rootes Group's Sunbeam Alpine roadster, designed in part by American car designer and racing driver Carroll Shelby and produced from 1964 until 1967. The Sunbeam Alpine was a stylish two seater convertible powered by a four cylinder engine which gave respectable but not ground breaking performance, that had first been launched in 1959.Although the Rootes Group Sunbeam Tiger is of course a British classic car, the idea of the Tiger was formed in the USA by Rootes American Motors Ltd who asked the now legendary Carroll Shelby of AC Cobra fame to build a prototype V8 sports car based on the Sunbeam Alpine. Rather unfortunately (and wrongly in my opinion) the Tiger was dubbed as the poor man’s Cobra by the less impressed motoring buffs of the time. The Sunbeam Tiger was a high-performance version of the Rootes Group's Sunbeam Alpine. Sunbeam aficionado‘s refer to models after these changes as the MK IA.The Mk II version was introduced in December 1966. Used, surface rusted, hinges broken. Externally a new “egg box” style front grille was the most notable change.Sadly though, the life of the MK II was to be very short. Initially the Tiger was only available in the USA and Britain had to wait until the summer of 1965 before anyone could actually take delivery of one. No holes. I'll work the $10,000 (£3,571) out some way, possibly from the advertising account.There is no doubt that the Tiger is somewhat misnamed, for it has nothing of the wild and dangerous man-eater about it and is really only as fierce as a pussy cat. Much like most sports cars created in the late 1950s, it had simple and clean side body panels accented by muscular front and rear fenders. The factory only ever designated two, the Mark I and Mark II, but as the official Mark I production spanned the change in body style from the Series IV Alpine panels to the Series V panels, the later Mark I cars are generally designated Mark IA by Sunbeam Tiger enthusiasts.All Tigers were fitted with a single Ford two barrel The Ford V8 as fitted to the Tiger produced 164 bhp (122 kW) @ 4400 rpm, sufficient to give the car a 0–60 mph (97 km/h) time of 8.6 seconds and a top speed of 120 mph (190 km/h).In 1964, its first year of production, all but 56 of the 1649 Mark I Tigers assembled were shipped to North America, Minor changes followed later in 1965 which included improved hood storage and featured the body styling of the series V Alpine. Rootes decided instead to contract the assembly work to Jensen at West Bromwich in England, and pay Shelby a royalty on ever Comes with new hinges. Priced at $3842, the Mark II Tiger was little more than a re-engined Mark IA; by comparison, a contemporary V8 Rootes had always been insufficiently capitalised, and losses resulting from a damaging thirteen-week strike at one of its subsidiaries, British & Light Steel Pressings, coupled with the expense of launching the Manufacturing a car powered by a competitor's engine was unacceptable to the new owner,The Tiger name was resurrected in 1972 when Chrysler introduced the Both Tigers suffered early mechanical failures, and neither finished the race.Once Rootes had made the decision to put the Tiger into production an Alpine IV minus engine and transmission was shipped to Shelby, who was asked to transform the car into a racing Tiger. Sunbeam Tiger used fuel pump door.


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