1964 SUNBEAM Alger For Sale on eBay $24,500

[John W]

Technically a V-Alpine was a European delivery car the Alpine 260 . Not that it bothers me that the Tiger script fits the same holes as the Alpine ones as I understand .[/QUOTE


Your post is as much a "gift" as Ed's "conversion." Tiger" to Alpine. An automatic to boot. (assuming the holes are the same).

 

[alpine_64]

Did they even make an original automatic Tiger?

They made prototypes but the fuel consumption and performance was worse. The Ken Miles series II proof of concept car was a 2 speed auto.

The only factory prototype auto that sirvives was also tested with the 289.. Brian Rootes ended uo usimg it as his personal car.
It was restored in the UK around 2 years ago

 

[John W]

Other than grimising at your "donation time" designation, I follow verbatim everything you post almost as intently as I follow Bob W (who I haven't seen in a while) or Jan (himself). Do you KNOW that the factory ever produced a Tiger automatic?

 

[alpine_64]

Other than grimising at your "donation time" designation, I follow verbatim everything you post almost as intently as I follow Bob W (who I haven't seen in a while) or Jan (himself). Do you KNOW that the factory ever produced a Tiger automatic?

As above the factory did produce a proto auto mki which was also upgraded with a 4.7.

As stated after testing it became the private car of the rootes family and is well documented

 

[Warren]

Quite sure there was a 260 with an automatic as a prototype. Can't remember if it was the white on or the dark colored one that's got the headrest and photos shoot with the gal splayed out over the boot.


As for donations PayPal is sending out suspension notices if you don't give them your personal info. They can already draft against my bank account.
As for donations time banner be careful what you ask for as a forum without content is like a car with no gas. Yes I know you can do as little as 5 bucks. Just saying. There's just better ways to ask like it's less than a cup of four buck's coffee which is now 6 bucks since they unionized.

* Just modified a Starbucks joke

 

[alpine_64]

Quite sure there was a 260 with an automatic as a prototype. Can't remember if it was the white on or the dark colored one that's got the headrest and photos shoot with the gal splayed out over the boot.

That was the red miles proto with the 2 speed auto.

But rootes built a proper mki auto prototype. Had a 260 then 289...thats the brian rootes personal car.

 

[Warren]

I think the question was was there a mass produced Tiger slush box and that's no.

 

[Paul A]

Nice! Not to sure about this though……View attachment 26915

cruise control I installed it when I owned the car.

 

[Paul A]

No relation to seller. He calls it a 'Tribute" car.

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I bought the car from Ed. It had a tired 289 in it that I replaced with a 302, bored .030 over with a stage two Comp Cam. It ran very well and was fast...faster than the Tiger I recently sold. I sold it to a gentleman from California who drove it home - South Dakota to California. It was a solid, rust free example when I sold it. I bought it from Ed at the Invasion in Georgia and drove it back to sunny SD. My wife followed me in our '67 Alpine (Ol Blue). I had the car for five or six years when I got a call out of the blue. The buyer was wanting an auto tranny Tiger (Alger) and made me a ridiculous offer I did not refuse.