- 1. Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Boyd <ISC@dcsi.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:09:49 -0700
- Hey Listers: I recently discovered a *rear engine* rear wheel drive Sunbeam at a local auto wrecker. It had a VIN number but I couldn't get the numbers (where were my glasses when I needed them?) I'm
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01005.html (7,474 bytes)
- 2. Re: Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: palte@rt.el.utwente.nl (Bert Palte)
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 97 12:14:34 +0100
- This must have been a Sunbeam Imp (or Hillman Imp, or Sunbeam Chamois or whatever, whatsay badge engineering??) Actually, this was the car with which the London-Sydney Marathon in 1969 was won. I hav
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01021.html (7,904 bytes)
- 3. Re: Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: The Richards <smrm@coastalnet.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:20:09 -0500
- I am just dying of curiousity. Can anyone help me ID this car and tell Sunbeam Imp/Stiletto. 875cc DHC with 51hp. There was a junkyard nearby that once had close to a dozen of them. They must have be
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01022.html (7,535 bytes)
- 4. Re: Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 97 09:20:33 -0400
- Are you sure it wasn't a Fiat spyder 850? Larry Macy 78 Midget
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01028.html (7,896 bytes)
- 5. Re: Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: Hal Rogers <hdrsons@iamerica.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:33:10 -0500
- Yes, sounds like an Imp to me as well. (My Dad just purchased one recently) Regards, Hal Hal Rogers H.D. Rogers & Sons Import Auto Specialists 3418 Barksdale Blvd. Bossier City LA 71112 USA (318) 742
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01030.html (7,951 bytes)
- 6. Re: Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 97 10:00:43 -0400
- See what happens when you jump to respond. I said this and immediately started to read other posts that There was a rearengine sunbeam I never knew. Larry Macy (footinmouthitis) 78 Midget
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01034.html (8,237 bytes)
- 7. Re: Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Boyd <ISC@dcsi.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:20:59 -0700
- Hey Mike ! Thanks for the quick and informative reply to the Imp question! Thanks to you, I now know *much more* about this car! I have never seen one of the before in the States; maybe they were mor
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01036.html (7,609 bytes)
- 8. Re: Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: miker15@juno.com
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:19:53 EDT
- Jim. - what you have found is almost certainly a Sunbeam version of the Hillman Imp (sorry, just cant think what the sunbeam name was but it was a badge-engineered imp with plushier trim) - mid sixti
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01069.html (8,386 bytes)
- 9. Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: Simon Matthews <simon_matthews@avanticorp.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 13:48:22 -0700
- Others have already identified it as an Imp, but I can add, the engine was the 'Coventry Climax' engine, originally designed as a stationary engine for use in fire pumps. There were a couple of kit c
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01198.html (8,296 bytes)
- 10. Re: Sunbeam Question! (score: 1)
- Author: Paul Hunt <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:13:53 +0000
- Hillman Imp, Sumbeam Stiletto, Singer Chamois. The Stiletto was sporty, the Chamois luxurious, and the Imp, well, ordinary. My father-in-law to-be had a Chamois, lovely car, but it spent more time in
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01559.html (8,185 bytes)
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