ollie wrote:I do, but not just any Lotus, a very Rusty Lotus! in fact a Sunbeam lotus, better for knocking down trees on rally stages! Oh yeh, and its not mine! its a customer one which has been in residence for 18 months and is now growing roots.........
Pictures please, I loved those cars. Didn`t they make a rare version of them too, Avon or something like that? A place not too far from here used to specialise in them (and Avengers and the like), Skip Brown I think they are/were called.
Anyhow can you persuade the owner it`s not worth repairing and sell it to me for a stupidly cheap amount of money?
Cavmad you are correct in that SBC were and still are heavily into the Roots Group or Pug as they are now.
The sporty avenger was the Tiger which was the 1600 version with the 1500GT head with twin webers etc to make it go the sunbeam equivalent was the Ti which also had the 1600 avenger lump.
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Luke
Please call me Luke
1989 BX 16valve White 70k almost up to scratch
Aye, I remember the Tiger. Nice looking cars in their day (always had a soft spot for Rootes cars) and pretty quick too.
A lad I worked with a few years ago had a Sunbeam Ti, Christ that thing was quick. He reckoned it weighed less than a bag of crisps and had a cracking engine even as standard, though he`d tweaked his I think.
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cavmad wrote:Aye, I remember the Tiger. Nice looking cars in their day (always had a soft spot for Rootes cars) and pretty quick too.
A lad I worked with a few years ago had a Sunbeam Ti, Christ that thing was quick. He reckoned it weighed less than a bag of crisps and had a cracking engine even as standard, though he`d tweaked his I think.
I hear you brother
I am a fan of the older Rootes cars as well loved the Avenger and the Sunbeam - mate had a Sunbeam Ti which was stupidly quick but he blew it up at Cadwell and I grabbed the twin 40s for my MK2 Escort
Another mate had the Holbay Hunter 1725 lump in his Ginetta, the one with the long nose like a Triumph TR6.
SBC also did a Samba Cheetah which was the S but with new head cam and twin 40s never seen on ethough but it was alleged to tame 205 1.9s at a fraction of the cost
Cheers
Luke
Please call me Luke
1989 BX 16valve White 70k almost up to scratch
Hi,
Speaking of the Sunbeam Ti & lotus, I was lucky enough to get a ride in a Sunbeam lotus (West-tune owners own car) which had a suitably tweeked 2.2 donkey. That thing really flew and at the time (circa 1990) was definately the quickest car I'd had the pleasure of being in.
The Holbay lump was a marvellous thing by all accounts and I think made it into a few cars. The Hunter GLS was a right old flying machine for example, and didn`t the wonderful looking (in my opinion) Rapier Coupe also have the Holbay fitted?
I still kick myself now after having being offered a Hunter GT for £40 years ago (the only one I`d ever seen, let alone heard of) and knocking it back. I don`t think it was originally fitted with the Holbay but this one had been and it was bloody quick too!
Can`t beat reminiscing can you
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I'd love to sell it! cos its eating space
But the owners a friend and had it since his misspent youth! proposed to his wife in it I beleive, tho she'd rather not see it back cos the garage is full of new TVR.... bit car nuts me thinks so it won't be wasted!
Popped into Skip Brown a while back, who didn't seem that interested, got the impresion that theyd moved on as the last ones rusted and crashed away - do Pugs now I think....
Hi thought the last one was a S800 Honda. The second a Jenson Healey and the first kept on thinking of a turtle but couldnt remember the name. Was a turtle the bonnet mascot?
This was good must try and get some more together.
Cheers.
Geoff
UMM Ta for the info. You were quite correct, no bl***y help at all Will keep thinking on that one. Will be fine providing no one asks me to pronounce or spell it, then I'le be in trouble!
Will be fine providing no one asks me to pronounce or spell it, then I'le be in trouble!