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| Thread ID: 103298 | 2009-09-17 23:48:00 | Look At What I Found Today - - - - - | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 811467 | 2009-09-17 23:48:00 | A car - just in case you don't recognize it - it's a 1967 Sunbeam Alpine with a 2.3L Pinto engine - Keith Black Forged 11.25:1 pistons and a Ford/Mazda 5-speed stick. | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 811468 | 2009-09-17 23:58:00 | damn that's a fine looking car!! | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 811469 | 2009-09-18 00:16:00 | damn that's a fine looking car!! I've loved them for years and this is the first Daily-Driver I've seem like it in Hemet. The red Amigo in the back of pix-1 is mine. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 811470 | 2009-09-18 00:20:00 | isuzu? | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 811471 | 2009-09-18 00:26:00 | Its a Sunbeam Rapier quite common here. Alpine badge used here for slazy version of the Avenger. All Sunbeam, Singer, Humber ,Hillman, Commer, Rooted Group crap. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 811472 | 2009-09-18 00:28:00 | Its a Sunbeam Rapier quite common here. Alpine badge used here for slazy version of the Avenger. i meant the red car in pic 1 :lol: |
GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 811473 | 2009-09-18 00:32:00 | Nice looking car, how much do they want for the car? | convair (13650) | ||
| 811474 | 2009-09-18 00:45:00 | The red one looks like a MU. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 811475 | 2009-09-18 01:03:00 | The red one (mine) is a 1989 Isuzu Amigo, 2.6 - 5-speed. The guy wants $25,000.00 USD for the Alpine when it's done. They are quite rare here any more. Originally, Chrysler put 273 ci V8s in them with a 4-speed and they ran very well, but later when the (Rootes group?) company sold to Ford, they put some 5.0 Liter Vs in them and proceeded to ruin a good car. That's when the frames started bending permanently and they ceased production and went to a different engine (the Sunbeam/Plymouth Cricket 1.5) with seriously! less! torque! I don't ever remember an automatic transmission in one at all, but I never met all of them. The Tiger Convertible (drop-bonnet?) was a flop with the high horse engines as they had NO real frame and would twist so bad with horsepower that you had to climb in and out over the doors from the time you hung a hairy shift - on. Ford tried to remedy the frame twist problem with some serious gussets and extra frame pieces, but that just drove the weight out of sight and ruined the G-force cornering and the car slid off the SCCA racetracks in fair rapidity or just spun out on the straightaways. Interestingly, the Chrysler (MoPaR) solid-lifter/cam Dual-Quad 273s morphed into a pretty good engine (273-318-340-360 ci) for a while, but it was old fashioned and could not keep up with the Chevrolet small-blocks and the newer designs in Ford Windsor engines. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 811476 | 2009-09-18 11:44:00 | The Tiger Convertible (drop-bonnet?) was a flop with the high horse engines as they had NO real frame and would twist so bad with horsepower that you had to climb in and out over the doors from the time you hung a hairy shift - on. Maxwell Smart drove one of those :stare: Its a Sunbeam Rapier quite common here. The Rapier was a version of the Minx/Super Minx/Hunter range, was not in that shape. images.google.co.nz |
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