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> From: Silverstein, Steve
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 6:29 AM
> To: 'Clivepococ(at)aol.com'
> Subject: Tips and pointers
>
> Clive,
>
> Since you are new to the car (and I'm not sure if you have owned older
> cars before) it would be good to try and accumulate images and information
> to keep the car original as possible, Some good books include The
> Sunbeam Alpine, by Graham Robinson as well as the "gold portfolio" that
> someone mentioned. I think these are available from Classic Motorbooks (
> http://www.motorbooks.com/ ) .
>
> The dash is available from Sunbeam Specialties in Los Gatos, CA. It is
> a nice dash and very reasonable in price. This would be a good thing to
> change with the window off.
>
> Be careful about the dash if you are at the upper end or lower end of the
> serial numbers for that series. I have a SII with a SIII dash layout.
> My car was near the end of SII production. Remember keeping it original
> is important....of course changes will be made by accident
>
> I also made the mistake of painting my dash what appeared to be the
> correct Silver. I heard that in the US they changed the color to black
> because the US market didn't like the Silver. When I found my car the
> dash was black crackled and crazed with silver showing through. I
> thought somebody had painted it black and did a poor job! But from what I
> was told is the importer changed the color. I don't know if this is
> true but eventually I will find out. BTW, the warm silver looks great.
>
> Have fun with the car.
>
>
> Steven Silverstein
>
>
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