TIGER THE MAKING OF A SPORTS CAR by Taylor - SUNBEAM SPORTS CARS - Hbd 1st w DJ

Description

A history of the 1960s
Sunbeam Tiger
sports and race cars!
This book is titled:
"
Tiger The Making of a Sports Car
"
written by Mike Taylor.
With its' original dust jacket!
Hardbound, 224 pages, with black & white photos.
This is the important history of these Sunbeam sports cars, from design to prototypes, testing, and production, (i.e. including the race cars)!
Because
Carroll Shelby
and his Shelby American Company had already installed a 260 ci Ford V8 engine into what became their famous Shelby Cobra, they were given the job of creating this important Sunbeam performance car.   Carroll Shelby's famous driver and engineer,
Ken Miles
, was assigned the job of installing a Ford V8 engine and testing the prototype cars!
There are important appendix addendums in this book.  They show production and performance figures, and also the race results for these 1960s Sunbeam Tiger 260 and 289 sports cars.
This is 1st edition that was published in 1979 by Gentry Books in London.
This book is
in Very Good+ condition
with slight handling.   The original price clipped dust jacket
is in Very Good condition
with light rubbing and slight handling.
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