Another of yesterday's things rarely seen

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 06/04/2019 at 17:38 • Filed to: Daimler SP250

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I had thought this was a Daimler SP250, a rare sight even when new:

But it’s not. It’s a 1967 Sunbeam Alpine. However, there’s a Daimler there too, behind it in fact . Advanced readers will be able to identify everything else in shot.

Here we go.

The SP250 was originally to be called the D art and was the last product from Daimler (no, not that one, t he other one) before it was bought by Jaguar. It had a fibreglass body to reduce tooling costs and a 2.5 V8, a thing not commonly seen and which had a brief outing in Jags subsequently . Just 1500 or so were made and Jaguar dropped it as they already had the E Type which could be made cheaper. This one’s in excellent condition and sports a new fabric roof.

lone_liberal > Cé hé sin 06/04/2019 at 18:26

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The Alpine is rarely seen because most of them, at least here, have been turned in to Tiger clones .

WilliamsSW > lone_liberal 06/04/2019 at 19:24

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Yeah it seems like Tigers are more common than Alpines, but that can’t be true.