The Sunbeam Tiger was made by a British brand that built it with a Ford engine. Then the company was bought by Chrysler, which put the Pentastar people in charge of selling a car with rival Ford's ...

Sunbeam Tiger: Ford V8 Meets 1960s British Roadster. No, the Other One. ... SUNBEAM TIGER MKI FACTORY SPECS. ENGINE. Stock 260ci Windsor (2V carb, 164 hp) WEIGHT. 2,565 Pounds. TRANSMISSION.

He liked what he saw in the 1966 Sunbeam Tiger and purchased it. “It was in OK condition,” Samouce said. “It had the original engine in it, which is a Ford 260.

The Tiger story is long and, in typical British automaker fashion, somewhat convoluted. When you think about it, though, it's sort of an Anglo-American Subaru BRZ/Scion FR-S -- a combination of ...

The Mark II, of which only 633 were built in the car’s last year of production, 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 ...

The engine is a Ford Racing Performance Parts GT40 crate engine, and it's backed by the Top Loader four-speed that came in the Tiger. One of his parts cars came with a new set of headers, but Ley ...

Shelby agreed to help out and thus the Sunbeam Tiger was born. As usual, the biggest change Shelby did to the car was take out the old engine of the Alpine and replace it with a Ford V8 one, a ...

So, Chrysler didn’t want a 289 Ford in their car so the Sunbeam Tiger was cancelled in 1967 as soon as the supply of 289 V8 Ford engines was used up. The very last Sunbeam Tiger said “Powered ...

SUNBEAM TIGER MKI FACTORY SPECS. ENGINE. Stock 260ci Windsor (2V carb, 164 hp) WEIGHT. 2,565 Pounds. TRANSMISSION. ... Sunbeam Tiger: Ford V8 Meets 1960s British Roadster. No, the Other One.

As an aside to this letter, another one of my favorites of the period was the Sunbeam Tiger. As you probably know, the demise of the Sunbeam came right after Chrysler bought the Rootes Group. The ...