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Re: 63 Alpine Sunbeam

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: 63 Alpine Sunbeam
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 08:17:54 -0400 FILETIME=[B4D5E420:01C1FCD3]
I'm a little behind on my email but,


You're right Jay,

The 318 wasn't anywhere near as good as a 289 or 302.  ;-0

Brian


>I'm not a Tiger authority by any means, but I believe the Tiger continued 
>after
>Chrysler's purchase of the Rootes Group for a short period of time but was 
>axed
>since from a corporate point of view it wasn't logical to sell a vehicle 
>powered
>by another manufacturer's engine. Some sources state that Chrysler 
>considered
>continuing the Tiger but didn't have a suitable engine.
>
>jay fishbein
>innocentiville, USA
>one cat / no tigers
>
> > In a message dated 5/7/02 7:09:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > james@jamesbilsland.net writes:
> >
> > >
> > > Agreed - the Alpine had the Rootes 1725cc inline 4 engine. The Tiger
> > > had the V8. Tiger was canned when Rootes was bought by Chrysler.
>

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