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This car's beginnings comprise a complicated history, finding it's origins in the Sunbeams Tiger and Tigress. In the mid nineteen sixties its creators Peter Morley and David Llewellyn acquired the Tigress rolling chassis and fitted a Napier Sea Lion engine which Morley had found in a brickyard in Colchester where it had been stored for a number of years waiting to be used as a generator. The massively engined special made its debut at Silverstone in 1968 and was raced for several years with various modifications. In 1972 the car was rebuilt into a Bentley chassis, subsequently crashed heavily and in 1980 a new body was fitted with a nose very similar to that of the Napier Railton. This car has won many awards including the Itala, Boulogne and John Holland trophies and continues to race regularly. The twelve cylinder engine has a capacity of 24,000 c.c., runs on three SU carburettors and has an estimated power output of 550 bhp. The gearbox is four speed and the brakes are hydraulically actuated drums running in 19" front wheels and 20" rears. Length is 161", wheelbase 120".
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