[Sunbeam Talbot Email List] FEDERATION SQUARE

[Mal Clark]

Hi Dan and all, Bob has answered your questions, to continue,the Union jack badges,were fitted onto the rally cars, for overseas rallies,I think I read, insisted by Lord Rootes in the early 50s ( someone will no doubt will correct this) The side opening vent on my car MKV21,were also fitted  to Alpines for the 50s Rallies,possibly after Norman Garrard performed the feather duster exercise on the Alpines Bonnet louvres,and found they didn't do much at all the extract heat from the engine bay. These side vents certainly work.warm air is pushed out whilst motoring along.
 I hope no one is offended too much in my car, it was built in good faith,as a REPLICA works rally car,and has always been displayed as a replica,and nothing else, we are the bottom end of the World here in Aus, and have a extremely large Classic car scene, and its just great to promote the Sunbeams and to some extent how the cars appeared in those early days of Rallying, we also had Talbot Alpines in Rallys here in the 50s winning the Victorian Alpine Rally a few times,in the hands of Harry Firth,and Graham Honiville, Why do people build Replicas? Why do people dress up as Elvis Presley?  Mal Clark.
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