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The red Sunbeam Alpine I restored during the 1990s. It's a 1963 model, and has an alloy head 1600 motor, 4 speed manual with Overdrive, disc brakes. It also has a twin choke downdraught Weber - not standard, but it bolts straight onto the standard manifold
. I did all the mechanical stuff but had it professionally resprayed (after being bead blasted). Alpines (like most Rootes cars) are notorious for rust, but fortunately mine had been a Canberra car all it's life so had very little. It did, however have lots of bog from a previous bad repair - the panel beater ended up making a new drivers side doorskin and rear mudguard. I still remember getting the painted shell back from the shop and thinking "now where do I start putting this shed full of parts back into it?"The White Hillman Hunter I acquired in 2008 - from its original owner whose father had given it to her new in 1969 when she started university. It had been always registered and on the road, so it was in pretty good condition mechanically - I use it as a daily driver and it never misses a beat. It has a 1725 iron head motor and 4 speed all-synchro box (Hunter boxes are great, this one has 200,000 miles on it, is quiet and still shifts beautifully). It only has a single Stromberg CD carby (like an SU), but I have a set of twins that will be fitted one day. I paid the sum of $500 for this car - and it had $500 worth of rego on plus a boot full of parts, near new tyres etc. The current motor is tired (100,000 miles) but a mate gave me another one which has only 13,000 on it (from a car he had written off).
