[Sunbeam Talbot Email List] FEDERATION SQUARE

[Wes.Stewart]

Elvis! Good comparison.
I've met Sir Sterling on two occasions. He was very nice, very 
approachable, and very enthused to visit, drive and autograph a 
"tribute" mustang that was at the show.
My own interaction was regarding my 67 Riley Elf.
http://adocars.com/elf-ado/elf/elfimages/mossandi.jpg

WES
On 2/1/2010 5:19 PM, Dan Gooding wrote:
> Thanks Mal.  Interesting report.
> I had not heard of these "Works" cars, being a newbie to the Alpine 
> world.  Your replica is gorgeous.
> Some people don't like replica cars at all, especially if modified 
> originals.  I think most don't care either way, so long as there is no 
> pretense at being an original car.
> Years ago there was a guy in the Packard Club who somehow found and 
> purchased all the Packard Darrin body moulds and offered to build a 
> fake '41/'42 Darrin for anyone who had a Packard 120 to re-body and a 
> Super 8 motor and drive train to drop into it.  You should have heard 
> the outcry!  He propose in some ads that they would be so good that 
> they could be passed off as the real thing!!  There was serious 
> outrage at the time.  I think a couple were actually built, though.  I 
> never heard what happened to those Dutch Darrin moulds or that guy.  I 
> wonder.
> So, it would be almost correct to put a Union Jack plate on my car's 
> wings then and even correct if the car were ever used in a rally.  Any 
> car could be used in a rally, right, didn't have to be a Works car, or 
> did it?  I think they those flags are beautiful, so I am going to add 
> them this spring.  (Gooding is, after all, a Devonshire name, you know?)
> Best regards,
> Dan
> Daniel E. Gooding
> Lewisburg, WV, USA
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> [mailto:staowners-bounces at sunbeamtalbot.info] *On Behalf Of *Mal Clark
> *Sent:* Monday, February 01, 2010 5:19 PM
> *To:* Staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info
> *Subject:* [Sunbeam Talbot Email List] FEDERATION SQUARE
>
> 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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