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RE: Alpine Conversion

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Subject: RE: Alpine Conversion
From: "Derek White" <derekw@sltnet.lk>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:36:23 +0500
Hi all,

I don't think Alpine 260's (and tigers) are real Alpines. As soon as you put
in that dang furrin Ford engine you bastardise a very fine English design.
Even if a car started off life with a proper Rootes engine and was later
chopped to take a V8, it still will never be a real Alpine.

Derek
1967 Sunbeam/Ford "special"


Derek White
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Colombo 7
Sri Lanka
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Cell: 94 777 475955

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