[Tigers] Looking for Alpine front crossmember

[Thomas Witt]

Theo,
  There was a guy I've seen at the Knott's Ford show with an Alpine V-8 
conversion.  It was not made to "fake" a Tiger, but rather a distinctive V-8 
alpine.  He used a Volvo crossmember. It looks very similar to the 
crossmember in the Tiger. Having owned a Volvo 544 myself  I can attest to 
the similarity. I can't remember what model he got it out of, but I'm 
thinking the 200 series Volvo's.  In talking with him I recall him stating 
that the geometry was better and a significant brake upgrade as well.  He 
seemed very happy with it.

 Other than the car was white and the guy looked late 50's/early 60's I 
don't recall much more about him.  Maybe someone on the list knows who he 
is. Anyway, I thought I'd throw that out there as an option.  Likely Volvo 
parts are easier to find than Sunbeam, - especially as you get closer to the 
arctic circle.  :-)

Tom Witt



----- Original Message ----- 

> Hi all,
> Anyone in the Calgary area (that would be anyplace between Edmonton and 
> the US
> border, I guess) have a decent Alpine crossmember available? In the short 
> term
> my steering system upgrade will probably go onto my existing crossmember 
> just
> so I can drive the car this summer but the longterm solution is to build a 
> new
> crossmember from something that doesn't have a bazillion stress cracks. I 
> only
> really need the crossmember but I'd take control arms etc. as well if that 
> was
> part of the package.