Section : Triumph Spotting

Triumph Tiger 

Posted By : Steve Cureton, 16-Aug-2004, 11:17pm

• Triumph Tiger 

  Posted By : William Davies, 16-Aug-2004, 11:43pm

  Hi Steve,
  I can't imagine anything that would be comparable to a TR3 or TR4 - one or the other, but those two were poles apart in their own right!
  Was it by any chance a Sunbeam Tiger?
  http://www.tigersunited.com/car_show/barrett_j/def...
  Cheers,
  Bill.
  

  • Triumph Tiger 

    Posted By : Steve Cureton, 17-Aug-2004, 08:37am

    The traffic was heavy as it was in the rush hour so maybe I made a mistake, but I was convinced it had a Triumph badge as it made me look twice. I must go to the optician and get my eyes checked

    • Triumph Tiger 

      Posted By : Mark Field, 22-Aug-2004, 09:28pm

      sounds a bit like the conversation i had with colin on the driver change at lemans icould not belive he had just passed and out run a sunbeam tiger on the mulsanne . ihope i havent got to by him some glasses

• Triumph Tiger 

  Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 17-Aug-2004, 05:53pm

  I had a conversation with a chap a while ago who was trying to convince me about a Triumph Tiger. I had also notheard these two words together outside motorcycle circles and was sceptical
  
  apparently a V8 engine was somewhere involved and a very few were apparently made
  
  I thought the geezer was getting confused with sumbeam alpine tigers
  
  praps i was wrong and shouldn't have scoffed so readily?
  
  bin

  • Triumph Tiger 

    Posted By : Steve Cureton, 17-Aug-2004, 09:32pm

    I wish now I'd slowed down in my euro box and taken the opportunity to take a closer look

  • Triumph Tiger 

    Posted By : William Davies, 17-Aug-2004, 09:59pm

    I have to say this sounds like you've met "the bloke down the pub". Bear in mind that to most people, the Sunbeam Alpine and Tiger are little more than distant memories, easily confused with better known marques like Triumph and MG. While I wouldn't be big-headed enough to claim that it doesn't exoits simply because I've never heard of it, the idea of shoehorning a big V8 into the humble Sunbeam Alpine does sound rather too close to what was described to you.
    As a sanity check, I did a Google search using the keywords "Triumph", "Tiger" and "V8" - guess what I found?
    CHeers,
    Bill.
    

    • Triumph Tiger 

      Posted By : Jonathan Binnington, 22-Aug-2004, 08:58pm

      ''to most people, the Sunbeam Alpine and Tiger are little more than distant memories, easily confused with better known marques like Triumph and MG. While I wouldn't be big-headed enough to claim that it doesn't exoits simply because I've never heard of it,''
      
      yes, it came as news to me, i haven't seen any other reference to it either, another mystery or just a red herring???
      
      jonath