Name this car please

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defblade

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7,591 posts

219 months

Thursday 19th August 2010
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/easylocum/4908833584/

Request from a friend; that's the only photo.... it's too old for me (from that angle,a nyway....)

Thanks in advance folks!

friederich

258 posts

192 months

Thursday 19th August 2010
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'Tis a Sunbeam Talbot Alpine Roadster - circa 1953.

defblade

Original Poster:

7,591 posts

219 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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Thank you smile

friederich

258 posts

192 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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My father used to have one (well before my time!)

Nice looking, but that's as far as it goes....

Todzilla

237 posts

181 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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There was one of those on 'To Catch a Thief', driven by Grace Kelly...

lowdrag

13,026 posts

219 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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friederich said:
My father used to have one (well before my time!)

Nice looking, but that's as far as it goes....
Seem to remember Stirling doing well in one in the Monte Carlo. They were quite a car in their time, and insurers considered them a "sports car" and loaded the premium.

AJAX50

418 posts

246 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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I think it was called a Sunbeam Alpine, the Talbot name was for saloons.
friederich said:
'Tis a Sunbeam Talbot Alpine Roadster - circa 1953.

RDMcG

19,463 posts

213 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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AJAX50 said:
I think it was called a Sunbeam Alpine, the Talbot name was for saloons.
friederich said:
'Tis a Sunbeam Talbot Alpine Roadster - circa 1953.
Definitely named Sunbeam Alpine, and a slow, ponderous thing it was even by the standards of the time.

RDMcG

19,463 posts

213 months

Friday 20th August 2010
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AJAX50 said:
I think it was called a Sunbeam Alpine, the Talbot name was for saloons.
friederich said:
'Tis a Sunbeam Talbot Alpine Roadster - circa 1953.
Definitely named Sunbeam Alpine, and a slow, ponderous thing it was even by the standards of the time.