This car took part in the Masters 'Gentlemen Drivers' GT & Sports Endurance Cars race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.
Rootes had raced Sunbeam Alpines in the1961, 1962 and 1963 Le Mans 24 Hour Races and after Carroll Shelby's success in putting a big Ford V8 engine into the AC Ace Rootes asked him to do the same with a Sunbeam Alpine. The resulting car with a 4,261cc V8 Ford engine was put into production and named the Sunbeam Tiger. When it was decided to enter the 1964 Le Mans 24 Hour Race three highly modified cars were built, one a prototype and two that actually took part in the race driven by Claude Dubois & Keith Ballisat and Peter Procter & Jimmy Blumer. Both cars failed to finish, and if the car pictured above has retained its original registration number then it's the car that Claude Dubois and Keith Ballisat drove in that race. It was driven in the hour long race at Silverstone by Tony Eckford and Chris Beighton.
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