From: Larry Colen
On my way to lunch I saw an interesting car parked at a shop and
stopped to grab some photos. These cars are fairly rare, and apart
from this one being at a shop, they are quite atypical of British
cars. This post is more along the lines of sharing snapshots of a cool
piece of machinery than showing off pictures, but go ahead and comment
if you'd like:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623871260415/
Brought to you by the numbers 3, 8 and 3.
I think most people would be more familiar with the Jensen-Healey.
That is sort of an odd duck, because what it looks like is an
Interceptor convertible with an add-on hardtop installed.
One thing I hadn't known was that Jensen was the sub-contractor Rootes
(who owned the Sunbeam marque) chose to do the engineering conversions
installing the Ford 260 V8 engines into Sunbeam Alpines to turn them
into Tigers.
Or that the Tiger went out of production because Chrysler acquired
Rootes in 1967 and did not have a small-block V8 that would fit into the
engine bay, and could not, of course, still source Ford engines for them.
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