About 20 years ago I used to buy my parts from Imported Car Parts in Chester
New Jersey. The owner (Doug) had a Tiger that he had bought VERY cheap from
an old widow. He had seen an ad in a local newspaper for a Sunbeam Alpine and
went to look at the car. The woman showed him the garage with the "Alpine" in
it. The woman said her husband was always tinkering with the car and after he
died she had offered the car to the teenaged kid next door. The kid had
glanced at it in the dark garage and said it was a 4 cylinder Alpine and he
didn't want it. When Doug opened the hood and the woman saw the engine with
"powered by Ford" on it, she said, "gee I didn't know he changed the engine"
and cut the price!!!
I believe that Doug said he paid about $2,000 for a low mileage, very, very
clean Tiger in about 1975. I saw it back then and it was a very nice car. I
believe it was white. So those bargains do pop up!!!
Jan Eyerman
"db" <dbilesky@home.com> wrote:
When I bought my Alpine...7 years ago... is was after a disaster struck my
previous SV.
A nasty T-bone turned it into a parts car.
I drove to the address of the seller, a wreck of a house with an
old broken down garage.
We walked through the old garage to a door at the back.
This opened into a new, hidden secondary garage with a restored Alpine in
the middle.
Quite an amazing site. He was selling because he felt too old to own it.
I looked at this car a could swear it was my old alpine.
By this time I had sold the old SV carcass.
The colour was the same, everything was exact, except my old one did not
have wires.
I bought it.
After discussion we came to the conclusion that we had met each other in the
last couple of years (now 9 years ago). As it turned out he had bought
parts off my old t-boned wreck.
The Alpine I bought had the bumperettes off my old car.
http://sunbeamalpine.org/galleries/profiles/dougbilesky/dougbilesky.html
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