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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Joe Woodcock installed a '65 Ford Cobra engine in his '66 Sunbeam Tiger, all kinds of minor mods were required. The firewall had to be notched a tad to clear the new mill and four-speed ...

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 ...

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 ...