Group's Sunbeam Alpine roadster, designed in part by American car
designer and racing driver Carroll Shelby. Shelby had carried out a
similar V8 conversion on the AC Cobra, and hoped to win the contract to
produce the Tiger at his facility in America. Rootes decided instead to
contract the assembly work to Jensen at West Bromwich in England, and
pay Shelby a royalty on every car produced. Two major versions were
built: the Series I (1964–67) was fitted with the 260 cu in
(4.3 L) Ford V8; the Series II, of which only 633 were built, was
fitted with the larger Ford 289 cu in (4.7 L) engine. Two prototype
and extensively modified versions of the Series I competed in the 1964
24 Hours of Le Mans, fitted with the larger engine, but neither
completed the race. For two years the Tiger was the American Hot Rod
Association's national record holder over a quarter-mile drag strip.
Production ended in 1967 soon after the Rootes Group was taken over by
Chrysler, who did not have a suitable engine to replace the Ford V8.
Owing to the ease and affordability of modifying the Tiger, there are
few surviving cars in standard form.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbeam_Tiger>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1493:
The Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early
printed books, was first published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Chronicle>
1543:
King Henry VIII of England married Catherine Parr, his sixth
and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Parr>
1943:
World War II: German and Soviet forces engaged each other at
the Battle of Prokhorovka, one of the largest tank battles in military
history (Soviet T-34 tank pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prokhorovka>
1963:
In Gorton, England, 16-year-old Pauline Reade disappeared, the
first victim of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in the Moors murders.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders>
2007:
Two US Army AH-64 Apache helicopters conducted a series of air-
to-ground attacks in Baghdad; classified cockpit gunsight footage was
released to the Internet in 2010.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
inveterate:
1. Old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing;
obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.
2. (of a person) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed;
habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
3. Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inveterate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for
all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the
wrong reasons.
--Buckminster Fuller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller>
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