Re: Sunbeam

From: Jarrid Gross (Yorba Linda, CA) (GROSS(at)unit.com)
Date: Thu Jul 10 1997 - 09:58:00 CDT


Russel Maddock wrote,

>Maybe not. William Lyons' SS Cars had worked out a deal to buy Sunbeam
>when Billy Rootes stepped in and pulled the rug out from under him.
>Lyons wanted the name because SS was not very PC at the time. Had
Rootes
>not succeeded Sunbeam would most likely still exist today.
>
>Russell

Makes me want to go out and shoehorn that V12 Jag motor into my Alpine
that I should have had in the first place.

I feel robbed.

Jarrid Gross



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