Did Ken Miles actually drive this 1966 Sunbeam Tiger?

[@bobkohl6779]

Had a Tiger II. Loved it but brutal in a SoCal summer. 289 ran hot. This one is special!❤

[@musclecarswitheric]

It certainly is a special car

[@stevesunshine7877]

@@musclecarswitheric Original unrestored cars like this one do not run hot even in triple digit Arizon weather. The restored modified cars are the ones with the complaints

[@petersilva2764]

Rootes did not build Jensens. Rootes subcontracted the building of the Tiger to Jensen as Jensen had an available assembly line after they stopped building the P1800 for Volvo.

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[@EddiePickering-m2p]

Rootes did not do Jensens, Jensen were a car company in their own right. Famous for the Jensen Interceptor. Jensen were also a car builder and they were comissioned by Rootes Group to build /install the V8 engines into what had started as a Subeam Alpine (007 James Bond's car in the first film, Dr No) working to Carroll Shelby's design creating the Sunbeam Tiger. The Ken miles design was rejected by Rootes, but condidering Miles was given £700 to design the car v Shelby who wax given £10,000 this was no big suprise.

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[@naturalbornscorpio929]

Very kool car😎

[@chrisfranklin2104]

Stuffed !! It's a Californian " knife & fork job" done on an Alpine !! Ask me how I know .... a fun car indeed, despite its shortcomings. Some of those Mark 1A's were factory fitted with 289's as well, as Rootes had exhausted their supply of 260 engines. Clues to being a 1A Tiger are the square cornered trunk, doors and hood, instead of rounded & lead filled body curves, exposed panel join seams, all done because Chrysler "cut corners" to cheapen production costs, and that flimsy soft tip covering in place of the three metal hinged panels that hid the soft top when stowed ... basically the same as the Mk 5 Alpine body shell. Final rendition was the Mk 2.... which is the holy grail of Tigers, with that superb honeycomb grille and no side stainless trim, but stainless wheelarch trim instead. End of lesson, Enjoy. 😉

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Footnote, Jensen Motors did the assembly of the Tiger production, who were sub contracted by The Rootes group, who did not have the facilities to do the conversion at that time ... Tigers were assembled on the same production line as Austin Healey 3000's, all at Jensen, West Bromwich, England. Rooted only built some development Tigers in house,, and a few special race cars for Le Mans.

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[@historicsunbeamtigers8447]

What are you on?. This is just a regular production MK1A.

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[@davidviner4932]

The original Bond car

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Don't forget Maxwell Smart from the tv series Get Smart.