Is this Sunbeam Alpine from 1966 a smart bargain from 1966? – Jalopnik

Although it looks like his rip-cut brother, the tiger, today’s prize or no dice Sunbeam, his less raw brother or sister, the four-cylinder Alpine. Let’s see if it is priced to make up for the less intended position.

Automakers have thought a lot about mentioning their cars and trucks. When a model turns out to be successful, the name comes into a pantheon of words that are more often associated with machines than the original use. A perfect example of this is “Mustang”, which when it is called, most of us will see the Ford Pony car, not a wild horse of the American southwest.

It is the same in the deep well of musical notations, from which bucketfuls of automobile model names have been drawn. For many, the names Austin Maestro and Allegro, Honda Beat and Ballad, and many more all evokes images of cars, no evenings in the orchestra. Interestingly, Allegro was an early competition at Ford for the car that would eventually become the production Mustang. Ford finally arrived to use the music environment when it introduced the pace in the 1980s.

The Ford Tempo GL of 1993 that we looked at yesterday offered sensible transport and a surprising manual five -speed gearbox. With a question of $ 2,700 you all did not miss a beat, which gives the Ford a remarkable 73% great price win.

Speaking of naming, today 1966 Sunbeam Came with two demonstrably cool names: the four-cylinder Alpine and the Ford-driven V8 tiger. Both were once used in the TV comedy of the sixties, ‘Get Smart’. In the series, agent 86, played comic timing from actor Don Adams with Razor-Sharp, every episode opened with a title series that showed him arriving in a sports car on his Spy Network HQ. In the rarely seen pilot episode of the show, Agent 86 arrives in a blue Ferrari 250 GT PF Cabriolet. That was replaced in the series by a Sunbeam tiger, and in later seasons, a VW Karmann Ghia and an Opel GT.

Of all that, the tiger is the most interesting, not only because it is the coolest one, with his Ford V8, but because he had a four-cylinder Alpine as his stand-in for many of the close-up gags. Because ‘Get Smart’ was a parody of the James Bond films, Agent 86 naturally had to have a car loaded by Gadget to help with his fight against the malignant KAOS organization. The producers of the show wanted the tiger to have an under -hotel, smoking screen and oil -covered implementation, and even an ebber chair. The problem was that part of the hardware-in particular the Under-Kade Pistool would not fit in the tiger, so an alpine was adjusted instead and congenital as a tiger for the scenes that required the espionage machines.

Just like Maxwell Smart’s car, this Sunbeam Aline Mark V from 1966 is red with black upholstery and carries full factory covers. In contrast to the Get Smart Car, however, there are no weapons, rotating license plates or smoke bombs.

It is also not a tiger, so there is no V8 under the hood. Instead, Sunbeam’s Stout 1725 CC OHV Inline Four is equipped with a few Zenith Stromberg 150 CD Side -ripped carburators. From the factory, that setup makes a claimed 93 hp (gross). This car combined it with a desired LayCock-the-Normanville transfer on the standard manual gearbox with four gears.

There is a new link between the engine and the transmission per the seller. The advertisement also notices on the replacement of the windshield, new Koni shocks front and rear, as well as Vers Michelin XVS rubber. The car is described as otherwise all original and to come up with a ‘good history’. According to the offer, it has 75,000 miles under the belt and has a clean title.

By being a turn-key classic, this Alpine would enable everyone to get his solution from Agent 86 (or Barbara Feldon’s Saucy Agent 99), even if it is not a tiger. The car seems to be in good condition on the photos, with all its chrome trim that shone clearly in the sun and all the right badges.

We don’t get to see much of the interior, because it is masked by the included Tonneau cover, which raises a different question: does the car have a kind of top? Nothing is mentioned in the advertisement and the car is only shown with the Tonneau in place, so it raises the question of whether this is nothing more than a friend of fair weather conditions.

Speaking of friends, this Alpine certainly seems to be in good company. The photos in the AD show of Craigslist, under its brothers, a Land Rover Pick -Up, V4 Saab 96, Lotus Cortina, Lotus Elan and Seven, and a Rover P6. I wonder if the seller is ready to adopt an adult child?

The asking price for this Alpine is $ 10,000, which means that the square in the range of a similar specified and condition places MBGs. Of course, the MG would have a hugely better availability of parts, given that you can basically build a MOSS Motors catalog. The tanning team, on the other hand, is much rarer and therefore a bit more interesting. Of course it would be nice if it was the V8 tiger, but with Real Deal Tigers who nowadays go for six digits, the Four-Pot Alpine is currently the more attractive option.

What do you think? Is this Alpine pretty attractive for those $ 10,000 questions? Or for so much, wouldn’t it be a ‘smart get’?

You definitely!

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