1960 Sunbeam Alpine Series I

1960 Sunbeam Alpine Series I in Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), TV Series, 1969-1971 Ep. 1.03

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Author	Message
dsl ◊ 2010-06-17 19:51	Early (pre-March 1963) S1 or S2 model with large fins. S3 also had large fins but had quarter windows in hood.
haaallloooom ◊ 2011-02-07 14:43	The SIII has quarterlights in the hardtop, but that looks like it has the soft top up, thus there would be no quarterlights on any series of Alpine. I agree it looks like a finned model so SI-III
dsl ◊ 2011-02-07 15:42	Soft top accepted - quarterlights was wrong word to use, but I had a reference which I can't find now that S3 had a 3-window hood.
haaallloooom ◊ 2011-02-08 12:46	Some may have done - all I can say is in my (limited) experience at shows and Sunbeam Alpine Owners Club events I have never come across an alpine with a three window hood. That is of course not to say they don't exist!
dsl ◊ 2011-02-08 13:35	haaallloooom wrote I have never come across an alpine with a three window hood. Probably the ramblings of my deranged mind as I still can't find my "source" and we've at least one hood-up S5 with single window on the database.