To compare, the 289-powered Shelby Cobra ... Ford's Windsor V-8 was chosen for the Sunbeam Tiger was its forward-mounted distributor. Packaging in the Tiger's engine compartment is so tight ...

However, if you look hard, you can still pick up a Sunbeam Tiger ... 289-cubic-inch small-block Ford V8. With a complete respray, a new top, new wheels, a rebuilt transmission, and a fresh engine ...

The Sunbeam Tiger was a high-performance V8 sports ... was powered by a Ford 289 cu in (4.7 L) engine. The Ford V8 in the Tiger produced 164 hp (122 kW) @ 4400 rpm, and that gave the car a 0 ...

The Sunbeam Tiger also did the same thing, taking the chassis of a Sunbeam Alpine -- which usually featured a four-cylinder ...

To understand the Sunbeam Tiger, you need some understanding of the Sunbeam Alpine sports car. From 1959 to 1968, The Rootes Group, a family-owned British company, produced the two-seat Alpine, on ...

In the middle of all this, Sunbeam still had no solution to the struggles of their Alpine. Negotiations for engine ... 289-powered AC Cobras seem to be worth their weight in gold, the attainable ...

Altogether, 6,450 examples of the Sunbeam Tiger were made through 1967, when the model sang its brief swansong with a new model featuring Ford’s 289 ci V ... its 4.7-liter engine, a Ferrari ...

STAMFORD -- If you were a commuter in the mid- to late-1960s and '70s you may have caught a glimpse of a British racing green Sunbeam Tiger owned ... small-block Ford V-8 engine bolted into ...

As you probably know, the demise of the Sunbeam came right after Chrysler bought the Rootes Group. The Chrysler 273 V8 was larger in proportion than the Tiger’s previous Ford 289 engines and it ...

In 1962, Carroll Shelby officiated the unholy marriage between Britain’s AC roadster and Ford’s small-block V-8 engine ... the Sunbeam Tiger were made through 1967, when the model sang its brief ...