Those are pretty sweet but I'd rather this:
My Comanche 400 will leave all those in the dust...
Sergeant Schultz, post: 401679, member: 315 wrote: One of my acquaintances way back in the day had a Sunbeam Tiger. It would eat a Camaro SS's lunch. Chevelles & Mustangs, too.
Heard of them, but never saw one.
Sunbeam Tiger
For the 1920s racing and speed record car, see Sunbeam Tiger (1925).
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Overview
Manufacturer Rootes Group
Production 1964ÛÒ67
7083 built
Assembly West Bromwich, England
Body and chassis
Class Sports car
Body style 2-door roadster
Layout FR layout
Related Sunbeam Alpine
Powertrain
Engine Tiger I: 260 cu in (4.3 L) V8 (Ford)
Tiger II: 289 cu in (4.7 L) V8 (Ford)
Transmission Ford 4-speed manual
Dimensions
Wheelbase 86 in (2,184 mm)[1]
Length 156 in (3,962 mm)[1]
Width 60.5 in (1,537 mm)[1]
Height 51.5 in (1,308 mm)[1]
Kerb weight Tiger I: 2,565 lb (1,163 kg)[2]
Tiger II: 2,574 lb (1,168 kg)[2]
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. Shelby had carried out a similar V8 conversion on the AC Cobra, and hoped to be offered the contract to produce the Tiger at his facility in America. Rootes decided instead to contract the assembly work to Jensen at West Bromwichin England, and pay Shelby a royalty on every car produced.
Two major versions of the Tiger were built: the Mark I (1964ÛÒ67) was fitted with the 260 cu in (4.3 L) Ford V8; the Mark II, of which only 633 were built in the final year of Tiger production, was fitted with the larger Ford 289 cu in (4.7 L) engine. Two prototype and extensively modified versions of the Mark I competed in the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans, but neither completed the race. Rootes also entered the Tiger in European rallies with some success, and for two years it was the American Hot Rod Association's national record holder over a quarter-mile drag strip.
Production ended in 1967 soon after the Rootes Group was taken over byChrysler, which did not have a suitable engine to replace the Ford V8. Owing to the ease and affordability of modifying the Tiger, there are few surviving cars in standard form.
For those who want to relive their youth without the up front expense of an already restored car:
(pic said to be a 1973 mustang)
When (not if) I win the Lottery, I
Sergeant Schultz, post: 401679, member: 315 wrote: One of my acquaintances way back in the day had a Sunbeam Tiger. It would eat a Camaro SS's lunch. Chevelles & Mustangs, too.
Back in 1968 I "test drove" a used Sunbeam Tiger that the original owner had swapped the original 289 for a Shelby 306 HP "crate motor." Man-O-Man...that little sucker was a little bit crazy when you jumped on it!
P.S. I believe that Maxwell Smart drove a Tiger.
Loyal
Dave Karoly, post: 401699, member: 94 wrote: My Comanche 400 will leave all those in the dust...
Yeah, but it's a little hard for the car hop to hang the tray on the driver's side window...;)
Loyal, post: 401751, member: 228 wrote: When (not if) I win the Lottery, I
Back in 1968 I "test drove" a used Sunbeam Tiger that the original owner had swapped the original 289 for a Shelby 306 HP "crate motor." Man-O-Man...that little sucker was a little bit crazy when you jumped on it!
P.S. I believe that Maxwell Smart drove a Tiger.
Loyal
I have a friend that has a Sunbeam Tiger. I took a ride with him when it had a 302 in it. Just a little extra pedal and it would smoke the tires at 55 MPH.
He recently put a 383 stroker engine in it. It's probably a handful now.
My friend put 200 lbs of sash weights in the truck (boot) to try & hold the ass end down. Here's a picture of my hero in his:
And, no, it's not the dog. Sheesh......
Loyal, post: 401751, member: 228 wrote: Man...that little sucker was a little bit crazy when you jumped on it!
That was the same with a Ûª67 SS 396/325hp Camaro as long as you were going straight. You could ÛÏlight Û÷em upÛ at 45mph in 3rd. Suspension, brakes, shifter (4 spd) and especially the steering were horrible. SWMBO, who was my girlfriend at the time, refused to drive it in the rain. :p
I had an Alpine, the base car for the Tiger, and it was a very nice little car. Well for the time. I also had an MGB with a V8, but, I never had motor mount issues. It had a much better issue of trashing the wire wheels. My current nuts road car is an Ariel and it is by far the best stupid purchase I have made, very very high on the stupid fun list.
This is a picture when it was still very new and I actually had pictures taken, I have modified it a lot since then
The main difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
Sergeant Schultz, post: 401785, member: 315 wrote: My friend put 200 lbs of sash weights in the truck (boot) to try & hold the ass end down. Here's a picture of my hero in his:
And, no, it's not the dog. Sheesh......
I think my friends Tiger has some very expensive tires on it that help a bunch. He does some road racing with it a couple times a year.
All comes down to experience and self restraint.
Holy Cow, post: 401796, member: 50 wrote: The main difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.
Yup, and Norm Larson's "toy" (a 3s I think) separates those who love racing from those that don't. 😉
All it needs is Jake and Elwood...
or Broderick Crawford:
Broderick Crawford, Highway Patrol:
Dave Karoly, post: 401870, member: 94 wrote: All it needs is Jake and Elwood...
or Broderick Crawford:
Broderick Crawford, Highway Patrol:
Highway Patrol, Boston Blackie and Alfred Hitchcock were all Pop's favorite tv shows. If you got your school homework and chores done you might get to sit and watch too....if you were quiet.
FL/GA PLS., post: 401800, member: 379 wrote: Yup, and Norm Larson's "toy" (a 3s I think) separates those who love racing from those that don't. 😉
It is a 2, the copyright on the photo is a dead give away, serial number 23 from Brammo in Ashland, Oregon. Mine has the GM Cobalt SS engine, not the Honda. Those were fun times when Brammo was building them. When they dumped them for electric motorcycles we were all, ... WTF. I think the owner, Craig Bramscher, did OK when he sold the motorcycles to Victory (Polaris) though. I have yet to try one, but, the Zero's look good too
Kris Morgan, post: 401600, member: 29 wrote: My dad has a '65 fastback mustang retromod that he'll sell you today that runs and drives with a 346 Jasper Racing motor in it with 10k on the motor, if you're really interested. It needs very little if anything, he's just past that point in his life. East Texas isn't that far from you and will surely make the trip back to South LA. 🙂
when i was about 11 or 12 my old man bought two cars: a 65 falcon futura (body only) from a junkyard and a 64 1/2 mustang 2+2 fastback with a 289 from my old 3rd grade teacher. he spent the next few years getting them both back into better-than-showroom shape. falcon got a 289 too, got one of those under-dash factory A/Cs, they both got rebuilt motors and trannies, basically ground-up restorations. as the days passed during my 16th year of life i spent a great deal of time trying to decide which one i wanted. then, about 10 days before my 16th birthday, dad sold BOTH of them. i was apoplectic. inconsolable. forsaken and forlorn. the cherry plymouth reliant station wagon he'd procured from some old grandma was like kicking dirt in my eye. i hated my old man for every last bit of that. about a month later i was driving out to the beach and i came upon a wreck, and there lay the falcon- on its roof and clearly beyond salvage. this only magnified my indignance as i fled-flinstoned around in my early 80's chrysler product.
eventually i calmed down, coming back to the reality in which i was a nerdy surfer kid and not a future Connie Kalitta.
flyin solo, post: 401890, member: 8089 wrote: when i was about 11 or 12 my old man bought two cars: a 65 falcon futura (body only) from a junkyard and a 64 1/2 mustang 2+2 fastback with a 289 from my old 3rd grade teacher. he spent the next few years getting them both back into better-than-showroom shape. falcon got a 289 too, got one of those under-dash factory A/Cs, they both got rebuilt motors and trannies, basically ground-up restorations. as the days passed during my 16th year of life i spent a great deal of time trying to decide which one i wanted. then, about 10 days before my 16th birthday, dad sold BOTH of them. i was apoplectic. inconsolable. forsaken and forlorn. the cherry plymouth reliant station wagon he'd procured from some old grandma was like kicking dirt in my eye. i hated my old man for every last bit of that. about a month later i was driving out to the beach and i came upon a wreck, and there lay the falcon- on its roof and clearly beyond salvage. this only magnified my indignance as i fled-flinstoned around in my early 80's chrysler product.
eventually i calmed down, coming back to the reality in which i was a nerdy surfer kid and not a future Connie Kalitta.
My dad wanted to sell this a few years back. An attorney from Longview called me about it when my son was 15 in March in 2013. Things were going good on the phone and my dad was standing there listening to the conversation. I asked, for some reason, what he wanted to purchase it for (weird I know). He said his daughter was turning 16 in a month and wanted to give it to her. I told him flat right there that the car wasn't for sale anymore. He became noticeably (on the phone) agitated. He asked why. I told him I'd picked up more than one dead kid as a fireman from the side of a road. I wasn't going to be a part of him killing his daughter. That car will run a hole in the wind and at 70 mph is turning 3 grand so from there to 90 is unusually fast with as light as it is. He said he hadn't considered that, at all and was very thankful to me about me not selling it to him. This dude had cash money ready to burn. I bet his daughter ended up with a car with used tires hung on the sides.
My first ride was a Dodge D50 4 cylinder. I wanted a V8 in a square body chevy so bad I could taste it. I didn't get it. At almost 40, I've been on both sides and can feel your pain, as well as your dads. 🙂
A Harris, post: 401651, member: 81 wrote: [USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
My 1987 MR2 is sittin' under the carport waiting for a motor rebuild. Been saying "some day" for 12yrs.
I had an 86 MR2. I tore that sucker up! Wrecked it atleast 3 times. Cant count the 180's i did in traffic in that car. Reckless youth. I much better on the vehicles now. I have entertained buying another MR2 for nostalgia reasons
