Had Rootes not succeeded Sunbeam would most likely still exist today.
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>>Russell
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>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
First good laugh after I got that chain reaction with my Alpine.
First reaction my insurance firm took was to buy my Alpine because "it is
so old, it has no value".
After calculating that a car in that shape (with cargo + taxes) is £ 3000
to 5000 in Finland, they turned to be very polite.
But the lesson is: TAKE CARE OF YOUR MIRRORS!!!!!
I had a bad feeling of danger or accident when I left home 2 hours earlier,
and I was very careful. When returning to home, I took my eye on that brand
new Alfa Romeo behind me and I decided there was no danger, because it was
most of the time not very close. And I did take care of traffic lights and
I tried to find out the cycle of jam about 1/2 mile before the lights.
Well, all by sudden there were a full stop of cars, and I managed to brake
"civilazed" way, and I was happy not to burn rubber. And then I got it, a
motorcyclist's intuition: enemy is at your back! In my mirror (panorama, of
course) I saw that Alfa coming full throttle....
1 or even 1/2 seconds earlier look to the mirror, and I had had the time to
curve to the green between the roads - now I had not that reserve speed!!
I managed half away - The hit was exactly in the middle of the car, and the
left side was allmost untouched. Both modern cars (Alfa Romeo and Honda
Civic) got into a bad shape. My worst woe was broken petrol line between
the tanks - 25 litres gas on the tarmac, and my fire
extinqisher-or-what-it-may-be was in the trunk! Boot lid was permanentaly
closed!!
Well, I am alive and my mk IV will be back to the road again. But summer is
veeeeeerry short here where sun does not set at midsummer...
Take care of your mirrors, take care of your cars, take care of yourselves
and have your fire equipment at your hands, even they might be stolen now
and then. Why to have them in trunk and not be able to use them?
Oh, the awful photos?
My dear old Alpine had no dramatic new shapes. Valances, bumpers and
painting are awful costly. Does anyone have bargain bumpers???
Larry, the survival
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