[Tigers] Brabham's Sunbeam Hype

[michael king]

Brabham offered tunning kits for rootes cars (rapier and alpine) that
involved 4 stages and worked their way up to full dual DCOE kits. There is
the stpries of him suggesting the SBF to rootes and also many ads featuring
him ith both the alpines and later the tiger (jim standing in the ope door
of a tiger and next to his f1 car)

2008/11/5 Jeffrey Nichols <jxnichols at sbcglobal.net>

> "I will have Mark II headlight rims and the
> letters on the trunk will spell BRABHAM.  I read a story someplace that
> told
> the tale of Brabham, Phil Hill, and Chris Amon all owned Tigers and raced
> each other from FI track to F1 track around Europe.  The story goes Brabham
> used letters from a HUMBER to spell his name on the trunk lid.  I don't
> know
> if the story is true but it makes for interesting discussion at car shows."
>
>
> There is a article in Autocar 12/09/66 where Chris Amon talks about his
> owner
> experience with a Sunbeam Tiger. You can find it in the Brooklands book.  I
> never heard the story about Phil Hill and Jack Brabham owning Tigers.   I
> have
> a interesting,  large format,  12 page brochure called the "Sunbeam Story"
> and
> Jack Brabham has a page to himself.  On the page there is a photo of him in
> a
> Sunbeam Rapier and he extolls the virtues of  the "Rally-bred Sunbeam".
> Jack
> is quoted through out the brochure so he must have been under contract at
> least in the early 1960's to Rootes.  It may  have been published in early
> 1961 because it mentions various races that Sunbeams won from 1952 to 1961
> but
> the Le Mans  Index of Performance is left out.
>
>
>
>
>                                                       Jeff
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Michael King