This book brings to life the European rallying history of the ‘Works’ Sunbeam Tigers.
It complements much previously written about the efforts of BMC with Minis, Cooper S’s big Healeys, MGA’s, Ford with Escorts, the Triumphs etc and convincingly describes why the Sunbeam Tiger must be included among these top British marques of the superlative rallying sixties.
The Sunbeam Tiger was a road car with outstanding performance for its time and once the more powerful works rally cars had been developed by summer 1964 they brought some much needed competition to the monopoly of the Austin Healey 3000’s in the big GT class.
With a foreword by Ian Hall, the book contains a detailed history of each of the International Rallies in which factory backed Tigers competed; starting with the 'Rallye Internationale San Martino Di Castrozza' in September 1964 and concluding with the 1966 'Acropolis Rally'. It encompasses the 1964 Le Mans and the 1965 Targa Florio and inludes chapters on the build of the works cars, FIA homologation details, previously unseen works cars build sheets, motoring press road impressions of the works cars, the rally cars performance figures and a large number of outstanding monochrome and colour photographs from a number of archives – and much more.
