About two-three years ago I was driving home from the Moss Motors "Brit Fest"
show and ran out of gas about 2 miles from home. I was in a suburban
development and walked over to the nearest house and asked if I could borrow a
little gas. When the fellow who answered the door saw my car (a '59 Minx) he
said, hey, I have an Alpine in my shed! He did, it was in need of restoration
and he said he was eventually going to restore it! Amazing-I could almost
walk to his house and never knew it was that! But what were the chances of
picking the one house in a thousand that had an Alpine?
Jan Eyerman
1959 Hillman Minx Series III DeLuxe
1973 Hillman Avenger (ex Plymouth Cricket)
"Ian Spencer" <SpenceIC@Healthall.com> wrote:
I've got one...
Just within the past year, my brother purchased a Series 3 GT. He brought the
car home and parked it in his driveway. His neighbor saw the car and said to
him, "I've got one of those in my garage!" Sure enough, sitting in this guys
garage was a Series V. All those years and we never knew the car was sitting
right under our nose, a stones throw away. - Ian
>>> <CMeinel464@aol.com> 05/25/01 08:54AM >>>
Paul,
Great story. I have a good one for you: about 15 years ago my wife & I
bought a 150 year old colonial here in Ossining. I had an old barn in the
backyard and after a few years filled it with 4 Sunbeams, 3 Alpines and a
Tiger.
After living there for about 4 years this girl who we later found out was a
neighbors daughter (two houses away), came up to my wife and said "I have a
car like yours except the steering wheel is on the other side"! My wife
introduced me to Pam and we walked over top her parents garage to find a 1966
right hand drive Alpine GT!
Imagine, we lived two house away for over 4 years and didn't know the Alpine
existed!
When I asked her why she wasn't driving it she replied "every time I press on
the clutch my shoe gets ruined with some type of fluid." It seems she didn't
want to take the leaking Alpine to college and it sat in the garage for those
4 years. I told her I could fix it for about $10 but she said that she would
rather drive her Honda, we gave her $500 for it.
Sometimes you don't have to look very far to find a Beam. Anybody else have a
good story?
Curt
Classic Sunbeam
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