Overhaulin' Sunbeam Tiger Episode Airs Nov 4, 2014
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restorer-john
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What's the difference between a Sunbeam alpine and the tiger?
Chip Chester
Super Member
4 cylinders and a hundred or so HP.
Wonder if it's a real Tiger. Many, many are not.
Chip
'67 Series V
Wonder if it's a real Tiger. Many, many are not.
Chip
'67 Series V
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So what? They'll also take an unrestored car and subject it to a top notch complete and total teardown and rebuild along the way. All free of charge to the owner.
From good old wikipedia....
I appreciate the thought but mine are too far gone....
Descartridge
Stereos been berry, berry good to me!
can't wait!
That's too rare and special a car to get "Foosed"
Can't wait to see the 22" inch rims.
I know of what I speak.
Enjoy
Eric
Yep some people just don't get it.
What was the trend in the 70s, 80, 90s does not look cool today. What was originally designed and restored correctly looks cool in any decade.
22" rims :scratch2: It would look like a tracktor
Mark W.
Nut house of the Universe
When I was a teaching assistant at a local high school (in the autoshop) one of the kids had a Tiger with the 260 in it. Just north of the High School there was a set of 15mph S curves. When I first got to the school they were just finishing up putting it back together from having gone off the corners and out into a field. Right before the end of the school year the guys were again working on putting it back together for having done the same stupid thing.
Kid didn't appreciate what his daddy had given him.
Kid didn't appreciate what his daddy had given him.
Brian
An Old Geezer
Funny you should mention this. At my school we had a kid with a Tiger. I at the time had my Nash Metropolitan and he continually made fun of me. One day I challenged him to a race from downtown Portsmouth to Wallis Sands, one of the two main beaches in NH. The route is all back roads with a lot of narrow sharp curves. All the smart money was on him, great odds. No handicap so off we went. I waited an hour at the beach before learning he had found out the hard way that the Tiger does not handle like an Alpine or even a lowly Nash Metropolitan on the curves. Car had the underbelly ripped out; luckily it did not flip and be was not injured.
The winnings went to buy a MG1100 and make minor changes
such as subbing in the Cooper S engine and the fwd components used when a S was set up for racing. With that I knocked off anything any other kid had in school on the same road. My speed days did not last, though. I may be one of only a few who got a ticket for.going too slow on a road with no posted minimum speed notice. And, my wife drives faster in her Volvo 4-cyl 940 than I do in my 6-cyl Volvo 960.
Brian
An Old Geezer
Possibly until one day when he tried to open the doors.
usedto
Lunatic Member
Not quite. Convertibles generally have a different frame to make up for the lack of structural integrity that a car body roof gives. Highly unlikely, but if there's ever a wreck where the body/frame is compromised and someone is hurt, they may be holding the bag when their insurance company says, "Sorry!"
And like Brian says, a few RR crossings at too high speed, and the driver's seat may lower itself, along with the floor of the car.
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68custom
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like others have mentioned a Tbird is a unibody car and will be much weaker in the event of a crash.
finnbow
The Dude Abides
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