The Sunbeam Tiger is a high-performance V8 version of the British Rootes Group's Sunbeam Alpine roadster, designed in part by American car designer and racing driver Carroll Shelby. Shelby had carried out a similar V8 conversion on the AC Cobra, and hoped to win the contract to produce the Tiger at his facility in America. Rootes decided instead to contract the assembly work to Jensen at West Bromwich in England, and pay Shelby a royalty on every car produced. Two major versions were built: the Series I (1964–67) was fitted with the 260 cu in (4.3 L) Ford V8; the Series II, of which only 633 were built, was fitted with the larger Ford 289 cu in (4.7 L) engine. Two prototype and extensively modified versions of the Series I competed in the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans, fitted with the larger engine, but neither completed the race. For two years the Tiger was the American Hot Rod Association's national record holder over a quarter-mile drag strip. Production ended in 1967 soon after the Rootes Group was taken over by Chrysler, who did not have a suitable engine to replace the Ford V8. Owing to the ease and affordability of modifying the Tiger, there are few surviving cars in standard form.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1493:
The Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, was first published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Chronicle
1543:
King Henry VIII of England married Catherine Parr, his sixth and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Parr
1943:
World War II: German and Soviet forces engaged each other at the Battle of Prokhorovka, one of the largest tank battles in military history (Soviet T-34 tank pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prokhorovka
1963:
In Gorton, England, 16-year-old Pauline Reade disappeared, the first victim of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in the Moors murders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders
2007:
Two US Army AH-64 Apache helicopters conducted a series of air- to-ground attacks in Baghdad; classified cockpit gunsight footage was released to the Internet in 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
inveterate: 1. Old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit. 2. (of a person) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker. 3. Malignant; virulent; spiteful. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inveterate
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons. --Buckminster Fuller https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
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