[Healeys] Restoration update 1959 BN4

[Oudesluys]

The original Alpine Sports had a rather lethargic engine. The car was 
not really up to the Ford power installed by Shelby. Much of the Tiger 
was Alpine but extensive reinforcements and other alterations had to be 
done by Shelby and Jensen for production began in West Bromwhich. And 
even than....

Kees Oudesluijs
NL


Simon Lachlan schreef op 13-1-2015 om 18:13:
>
> Well, I do remember that Tiger bit for sure. And I am unaware of any 
> other one-offs, not that I’d ever have researched beyond Tiger lore.
>
> I used to have a Tiger. My brother in law’s Alpine looked identical at 
> first glance, but that’s where it ended.
>
> I skidded my Tiger on large wet leaves. Hit a stone wall; car was 
> never the same again. I was too young/inexperienced/dumb to drive it 
> in the first place and too poor to fix it properly afterwards. I often 
> wonder about getting another.
>
> Simon
>
> *From:*Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] *On Behalf Of 
> *Oudesluys
> *Sent:* 13 January 2015 16:59
> *To:* healeys at autox.team.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Restoration update 1959 BN4
>
> I seem to remember that Shelby did a one of conversion of the Sunbeam 
> Alpine. This conversion was then again modified by Jensen who also 
> performed the final conversion/building of the car.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
>
> HealeyRick schreef op 13-1-2015 om 17:48:
>
>     No offense intended, but I think all these owners' claims about an
>     original Shelby conversion are pure BS.  Made up stories, either
>     done in jest or ignorance.  If anyone had a documented Shelby V8
>     conversion prior to the Cobra, I'm sure the collectors would be
>     waving fistfuls  of dollars at it.  And once Shelby began building
>     the Cobra, the only "side job" conversion he did that I'm aware of
>     was the Sunbeam Tiger.
>
>     On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Jonas Payne <jpaynepbr at cox.net
>     <mailto:jpaynepbr at cox.net>> wrote:
>
>     I saw an MGA at a car show that was supposedly done by CS.
>
>     It was well executed.
>
>     Jonas Payne
>
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