Re: fast back Alpines?

Rich Atherton (gumby(at)connectexpress.com)
Sun, 17 May 1998 02:35:33 -0700


Please do. I'd love to see where they were built. Is the Coventry plant where the Alpines were built still intact, or has it been demolished and replaced by something newer?

Rich

-----Original Message----- From: Russell Maddock <rmaddock(at)petrie.starway.net.au> To: Alpine List <alpines(at)autox.team.net> Date: Sunday, May 17, 1998 1:28 AM Subject: RE: fast back Alpines?

>I've only just had a chance to look at this. I spotted one error - they say
>that the Imp plant at Linwood was demolished. Rumours of Linwood's demise
>have been greatly exaggerated. I went there a few weeks ago and found it to
>be remarkably intact. The Pressed Steel factory across the road is gone, as
>are some outlying buildings, but the main part is still much as it was in
>the sixties.
>
>I intend putting some of my photos of the old factories on my site as I have
>time.
>
>Russ Maddock
>Brisbane, Australia
>http://www.petrie.starway.net.au/~sunbeam
>Sunbeam Imp Sport
>Sunbeam Alpine SIII GT
>Talbot Alpine GLS
>Peugeot 505 STi
>
>
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>