Plusieurs photos : Sunbeam Tiger (1964-1967)

Le Chat Caméra Lun 28 Fév 2011, 17:22

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Un "Muscle Car" à l'anglaise... study

Sunbeam Tiger
1964-1967

The Sunbeam Tiger was a muscle car version of the British Rootes Group's Sunbeam Alpine roadster.
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Sunbeam asked Carroll Shelby to produce one functional prototype on a budget of $10,000. Shelby's prototype was designed by Richard R. Hovis, and fabricated by Shelby employee George Boskoff, and the result was judged to be good enough to send to England for production evaluation.
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Production of the Tiger only lasted from 1964 until Chrysler purchased Rootes in June 1967. Chrysler could not be expected to sell a car with a Ford engine, but had no suitable replacement of its own: Chrysler's small-block V8 engines had the distributor positioned at the rear of the engine, unlike the front-mounted distributor of the Ford V8; their big-block V8 had a front-mounted distributor but was significantly larger. It was impossible to fit either into the Sunbeam engine bay without major and expensive revisions, thus the Tiger was canceled.

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Sunbeam Tiger 1964
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