Like the AC Ace before it, the Sunbeam ... American. Their plain for the Alpine was as simple as their plan for the ace: Put a Ford V8 in it, add the other components necessary for the car to ...

This is the story of one such movie homage car, a 1955 Sunbeam ... "The shadow the Alpine has cast is a paradox, for it is the first, and a well-executed effort to capture the American market ...

The Sunbeam Tiger was a high-performance V8 sports version of the Sunbeam Alpine roadster, and it was designed – at least in part – by American car designer and race driver Carroll Shelby.

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 ...

The Rootes family, which owned the amalgam of car factories—including Sunbeam-Talbot ... plastic racing windscreen (unbolt the stock glass pane and swap it out), the Alpine was hardly suited ...

To understand the Sunbeam Tiger ... potential in the American automotive marketplace where virtually no sports cars existed. This inspired Rootes to develop a totally new Alpine sports car.

We’re obviously talking about the AC/Shelby Cobra, but the snake wasn’t Carroll’s only animal-themed Anglo-American ... stylish but slow Sunbeam Alpine. A rival to cars like the MGA and ...