Great cars. I had the Ti as a 17 year old (insurance wasn't bonkers back then), 1600cc, , uprated camshafts, twin 40 Webers. Loved it. Really wanted one of these when I saw one close up at Skip Browns. Just ace.
The Sunbeam and the Avenger road cars were both good handling cars for their age. I had an Avenger back in the day and it was a great drive. My father bought a GLS Sunbeam new in 1981 and that was a great drive too. Great to see there is still a lot of love for these cars. Thank you for sharing
Lovely well put together beast, I helped my friend rebuild a crashed silver one in 86 and it was really nice and we built lots of Escorts for rally night events, he would do the whole jobs panel paint engines diffs gearbox's behind a ice cream factory in Pontadawe Wales. Great memorys.
If the right people get hold of something, indeed an ugly duckling CAN turn into a swan! What a stunning example, in these colours, with these wheels! Always WAS a special car, my friend had a standard model, but it was beautiful in a "hot" orange shade! But the sports versions never looked as good! Till now! Congratulations!
Oh, yes! I should say how stunning the bonnet compartment looks, with the bonnet lid low gloss black inside! Also the stunning SILVER underside! What attention to detail! I had a Karmann-Ghia I was going to exhibit at car shows, with a contrasting bronze painted underside. When I wanted to buy the paint for, called Adup Bronzeseal, it was no longer available .It was also used for sound deadening the underside, against road noise. That used to be case because the paint was thick. This was possible, because it was thickened with ASBESTOS! So it was no longer available!
Basically a gearbox you control either with paddles on the steering wheel or by pushing the gearstick forwards to change down, or pulling back to change up (so you can’t skip a gear like you can on a manual, you go through them sequentially). This is like most modern race cars - you set off using the clutch, then you don’t need it
The sunbeam body had a really bad design fault. The way the front linkages attached to the chasis rail ment that the slightes bump on the side of the front wheel would bend the chasis rail, which could not be straigtend once damaged.The front rail needed replacing and re-jigging just for a small bump like hitting a kerb at 15 mph. I had to do mine twice, straightening and plating did not work. A really bad design.
Nice exterior but I feel a historic should stay that way. No hi-tech mods, leave them to the WRC brigade.They didn't have them then and shouldn't have them now..! (rant over)
