JimErn Posted September 6, 2019 Report Share Posted September 6, 2019 Rolf, beautiful car, I had never seen one and seeing it made me drool. I used to race in gymkhanas, had at one time or another, an MGB, TR3, and a Sunbean tiger. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrampaJim Posted September 6, 2019 Report Share Posted September 6, 2019 Rolf, Wow! Nice Car! My biggest regret in life was NOT buying an Austin Healy "bug-eye" Sprite. I was still in high school and my dad said no. I should have argued more. OCtoolguy and kmmcrafts 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappile Posted September 6, 2019 Report Share Posted September 6, 2019 14 minutes ago, JimErn said: Rolf, beautiful car, I had never seen one and seeing it made me drool. I used to race in gymkhanas, had at one time or another, an MGB, TR3, and a Sunbean tiger. Sun Bean Tiger, the greatest car I ever owned!! Would love to have one again. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted September 6, 2019 Report Share Posted September 6, 2019 4 hours ago, Scrappile said: Sun Bean Tiger, the greatest car I ever owned!! Would love to have one again. My buddy had one. We used to ride to our Army weekend drills in it. If I'm not wrong, it had a 260 Ford engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrappile Posted September 6, 2019 Report Share Posted September 6, 2019 Yes a Ford 260. in '67 they came out with a 289cu. in. in them. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolf Posted September 8, 2019 Report Share Posted September 8, 2019 (edited) Now we are really hijacking this thread! Have you seen what the Sunbeam Tigers are selling for now. I used to autocross this but after I installed differential #7 I gave it up. There was a trailerd race prepped Buggey that gave me fits. I love the Brit cars and motorcycles. TVR was imported in the late 60's by Jack Griffith on Long island and he stuffed a 289 into it and called it a Griffith. The TVR factory eventually built the Tuscan with one of the engine choices being the HI PO ford 289. in a car that weighs 1700 lbs. Edited September 8, 2019 by Rolf OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimErn Posted September 8, 2019 Report Share Posted September 8, 2019 My issues with the sunbeam was with the transmission, seems it was always blowing the shifter pawl fingers and the synchro gear. course that could have my speed shifting during the race too. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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