[Mgs] Info on two items in the latest issues.

[Max Heim]

I don't understand your problem with #2. Hemmings called it a Sunbeam
Alpine. It looks to me that it IS a Sunbeam Alpine (or Alpine Sports), NOT a
"Sunbeam-Talbot". So where is the problem? If anything, History Detectives
was guilty of sloppy nomenclature.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires




on 11/3/10 8:04 AM, Jack Feldman at qualitas.jack at gmail.com wrote:

> I checked this with the folks on the MG and Healey lists.
> 
> 1. On page 43 your author wonders what the red and black jacks are for. They
> are power take-offs much like the way we use cigarette lighter sockets in
> modern cars. They were on numerous cars back them, and folks on the list
> confirmed that "trouble" lights had plugs to fit. One person wrote  "My Dad
> used them for a little parking light that clipped onto the top of the
> wind-down window, with a white lens to the front and a red to the rear."
> 
> The second item is a bit confusing. On page 88 You identify the car used in
> the move* To Catch A Thief* as a Sunbeam Alpine. The PBS program "History
> Detectives", had a letter from an owner of a Sunbeam Talbot asked if it was
> the car in *To Catch a Thief*. . The Detectives traced down the VIN in the
> movie production records  and it was not the gentleman's car. There was no
> mention of confusion in the car's name.. Here is a link furnished by Marin
> James that explains that confusion.  http://wmspear.com/bill/STA//.
> 
> I started my query to to the lists by saying I love your magazine, but
> unfortunately this isn't the first time I questioned something in the
> magazine. I may be more vocal in the future.
> 
> KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
> 
> Jack Feldman
> 1972 MGBGT
> 1969 MGC
> 1960 Austin Healey BT7