Sunbeam Alpine IV

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Check out this lovely Sunbeam Alpine IV in a very beautifull Midnight Blue and a light blue leather interior. The car was delivered in 1964 in the USA, later the car came to the UK where it was partly restored. Now the car is more than 10 years in Belgium with the same owner. Allthough he loves the car, sadly he doesn’t drive and enjoy it so he decided to sell the Alpine.

In our workshop we changed the fuel filter, the oil filter and renewed the braking system back and front completely.

‘The first open 2-seater Alpines were based on the Hillman 14 and its successor the Humber Hawk. Rootes replaced them with a softer new smaller 2-seater sports convertible coupé based on the current Hillman Minx and its variants. Kenneth Howes and Jeff Crompton were tasked with doing a complete redesign in 1956, with the goal of producing a dedicated sports car aimed principally at the US market. Howes did some 80 per cent of the overall design. He had been on the Studebaker team at Loewy Studios and then at Ford in Detroit before joining Rootes.

The Alpine was produced in four subsequent revisions until 1968. Total production numbered around 70,000. Production stopped shortly after the Chrysler takeover of the Rootes Group.

Series IV 1964–65

There was no longer a lower-output engine option; the convertible and hardtop versions shared the same 82 bhp engine with single Solex carburettor. A new rear styling was introduced with the fins largely removed. Automatic transmission with floor-mounted control became an option, but was unpopular. From autumn 1964 a new manual gearbox with synchromesh on first gear was adopted in line with its use in other Rootes cars. A total of 12,406 were made’.

(Wikipedia)