Sunbeam Alpine

The Sunbeam Alpine was a two-seater sports roadster and drophead coupe built by the Rootes Group from 1953 to 1955 and again from 1959 to 1968, with the name later used on a two-door fastback coupe from 1969 to 1975. The original of 1953 was derived from the Sunbeam-Talbot 90 saloon and took its name from Sunbeam-Talbot successes in the Alpine Rally. It was the first vehicle from Sunbeam-Talbot to bear the Sunbeam name alone, and it used the saloon four-cylinder 2,267 cc engine with a raised compression ratio. On its first competitive outing, the July 1953 Coupe des Alpes, it won the Coupe des Dames and four Coupes des Alpes.