Sunbeam Alpine series 4 roadster

"Sunbeam was a marque registered by John Marston Co. Ltd of Wolverhampton, England, in 1888. The company first made bicycles, then motorcycles and cars from the late 19th century to circa 1936, and applied the marque to all three forms of transportation. The company also manufactured 647 aircraft during World War I. A Sunbeam was the first British car to win a Grand Prix race, and set a number of land speed records. The company went into receivership in 1935 and was purchased by the Rootes Group, which continued to use the Sunbeam marque.

Sunbeam Alpine and Tiger

There was one more model of the Sunbeam-Talbot that appeared in 1953 in the form of an Alpine, a two seater sports roadster which was initially developed by a Sunbeam-Talbot dealer George Hartwell in Bournemouth as a one-off rally car that had its beginnings as a 1952 drophead coupé. It was named supposedly by Norman Garrad, (works Competition Department) who was heavily involved in the Sunbeam-Talbot successes in the Alpine Rally in the early 1950s using the Saloon model. The Alpine Mark I and Mark III (a Mark II was never made) were hand built like the Drophead Coupé at Thrupp & Maberly coachbuilders from 1953 to 1955 when production ceased after close to 3000 were produced. It has been estimated that perhaps only 200 remain in existence today. The Talbot name was dropped in 1954

for the Sunbeam Alpine sports car, making Sunbeam the sports-performance marque. In 1955 a Sunbeam saloon won the Monte Carlo Rally. Production ceased in 1956 and replaced by the sporty Sunbeam Rapier.

In 1959 a totally new Alpine was introduced, and the 1955 Rapier (essentially a badge-engineered Hillman Minx) was upgraded. After several successful series of the Alpine were released, director of US West-Coast operations, Ian Garrad, became interested in the success of the AC Cobra, which mounted a small-block V-8 engine in the small AC Ace frame to create one of the most successful sports cars of all time. Garrad became convinced the Alpine frame could also be adapted the same way, and contracted Carroll Shelby to prototype such a fit with a Ford engine. The result was the Sunbeam Tiger, released in 1964, which went on to be a huge success.

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Post WWII Sunbeam Models

1938-48 Sunbeam-Talbot Ten
1939-48 Sunbeam-Talbot Two Litre
1948-50 Sunbeam-Talbot 80
1948-54 Sunbeam-Talbot 90 Marks I, II & IIA
1954-57 Sunbeam 90 Mark III
1953-55 Sunbeam Alpine Mark I
1955-67 Sunbeam Rapier Series I, II, III, IIIA, IV & V
1959-68 Sunbeam Alpine Series I, II, III, III, IV & V
1963-64 Sunbeam Venezia by Carrozzeria Touring
1964-67 Sunbeam Tiger
1966-76 Sunbeam Imp Sport
1967-72 Sunbeam Stiletto
1967-76 Sunbeam Rapier Fastback & Sunbeam Alpine Fastbacks
1977-81 Talbot Sunbeam
1979-81 Talbot Sunbeam Lotus
1982-82 Sunbeam Lotus-Horizon"
This information found: Wikipedia Encylopedia

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