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  2. Sunbeam Rapier - Wikipedia

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    The Sunbeam Rapier is an automobile produced by Rootes Group from 1955 until 1976, ... Rootes redesigned the Rapier's four-cylinder engine to increase the capacity ...

  3. Rootes Arrow - Wikipedia

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    The sportiest Sunbeam was the Rapier H120 model, though this shared its specially tuned Holbay engine with the Hillman Hunter GLS. Sunbeam Arrow, Sunbeam Break de Chasse, Sunbeam Hunter, Sunbeam Minx, Sunbeam Sceptre and Sunbeam Vogue were used for export markets where the Sunbeam name was more familiar or deemed more likely to succeed.

  4. Holbay Engineering - Wikipedia

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    Holbay Engineering was a small family run British engineering company specializing in engine modifications and race tuning. Although they enjoyed much success during the 1960s and 1970s with their competition race engines, they are best remembered today for their work on the Rootes 1725cc OHV engines as used in the Hillman Hunter GLS and Sunbeam Rapier H120.

  5. Sunbeam Alpine - Wikipedia

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    In 1969, a cheaper, slightly slower and more economical version of the Rapier (still sold as a sporty model) was badged as the new Sunbeam Alpine. All models featured the group's strong five-bearing 1,725 cc (105.3 cu in) engine, with the Alpine featuring a single Zenith-Stromberg CD150 carburettor to the Rapier's twins, and the Rapier H120's ...

  6. Sunbeam Motor Car Company - Wikipedia

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    800hp Sunbeam Sikh V-12 water-cooled piston engine at the 1919 Paris Aero Salon. Sunbeam, Wolverhampton, England, started to build aircraft engines in 1912. Louis Coatalen joined Sunbeam as chief engineer in 1909, having previously been Chief Engineer at the Humber works in Coventry. The company quickly became one of the UK's leading engine ...

  7. Hillman Gazelle - Wikipedia

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    It was powered by a 105.2 cu in (1,724 cc) four-cylinder engine producing 85 bhp (63 kW; 86 PS) net, 15 bhp (11 kW; 15 PS) more than the Minx thanks to its aluminium cylinder head and twin-barreled Solex carburettor. This aluminium head engine was produced for the Sunbeam Rapier. [3]

  8. Sunbeam-Talbot - Wikipedia

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    Sunbeam Rapier is a Raymond Loewy designed two-door hardtop variant of the Hillman Minx available from October 1955. [15] Later sold as a convertible it displayed the Sunbeam-Talbot signature rear side-window on its first hardtop version. In 1967 it was replaced by a two-door fastback version of the Hillman Hunter which stayed in production ...

  9. Ginetta Cars - Wikipedia

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    The 1.7 litre Sunbeam Rapier engine subsequently became the standard four-cylinder engine for the car. 80 cars in total were produced before production ceased in 1974 due to the oil crisis. The car was later morphed into an open top G23 and G24 coupé version but none of those variants went to production.