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Winter Spares Clearout !!!

To increase my storage space I am selling off some of my accumulated stock, this incudes :- Front wings, Saloon Bonnets and Boot Lids, Suspension parts, Brake drums, Gearboxes, Mark 2 cylinder block, new Alpine Speedo, Radiators, Spare wheel lids, Tools and Tool kits, Petrol tanks, Dashboards, Starters and Dynamo`s, Switches and Lights and Instruments. Too many to list all so please contact me for availability and prices.

Sunbeam Talbot Coupe' Rear Hood Rail 

This laminated hood rail is now avaliable to order from us, to the original specification. There are two versions early ( Mark 1 90 and early Mark2 ) and later cars, the difference being in the length of the ends and the tacking groove. Please enquire for prices and availability. We can also make all the other timber sections as well for these cars.

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Performance Enhancing

With the generous loan of original patterns from various club members we are now able to offer a performance enhancing kit for original Alpine Special cars and ordinary, Alpine Saloon and Coupe modelsfrom Mk2 to 2a ( not Mk3 ).
This kit will be designed to take the weber twin choke down draught carburetter and when fitted looks very similar to the original but with reliability, economy and spare parts availability along with the performance increase.
The parts included in the eventual kit are shaded on the parts list diagram below this text.
Prices are:
Inlet manifold £240
Exhaust Manifold £255
Air Filter Elbow £165.
We have yet to fix a price for the Air Filter and fitting kit. The carbs are available new or secondhand and jet settings will be available.
We are looking for firm orders with a deposit, on an initial batch of 10 Kits of which we have around half so far.

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Alpine Special Manifold Kits

Pattern making is taking place with parts expected very early next year.

Number Plates
We now produce cast number plates identical to factory supplied and works cars but will fit any car up to 1963 when the character size changed. They come polished and painted and the characters are permanently attached in the casting process. The edge is polished and they are not as heavy as some pre-war vintage plates, being approximately 1/4" thick.
Price per pair £160 plus post and packing. Please contact us for ordering and payment prior to casting.

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Sunbeam Talbot body side mouldings

We are currently developing tooling to produce these hard to come by parts, especially the Alpine and Coupe long rear wing strips, availability and prices will be posted as soon as  they are ready.

Sunbeam Talbot Overide Choke control

Early cars have the automatic choke control which can be troublesome at times.
Rootes developed this control as an accessory and we are replicating an original as a kit which gives better control over the original set up which is left in place and will work as normal if required.
Reproduced from the original one, we have a small batch of these genuine parts to fit Mark 2 and 2A cars fitted with the original automatic choke. Even if the original is fitted but not functioning correctly this kit will overcome the problem. Supplied with dash bracket and choke cable £65.00 including postage in the UK.

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Windscreen Washer Jet Special Accessory

For: Sunbeam Rapier / Singer Gazelle / Hillman Minx and Husky

Series 1 to 3a Rapier, Gazelle 1 to3c, Minx 1 to 3c, Husky 1 and 2

Developed by Rootes as an accessory we have  produced new parts to original patterns and they fit over the windscreen wiper spindles with a small hole required to allow the tubing to connect to the jet. This is covered and made watertight by the new seal block which is shaped to fit these cars. So that they can be fitted to other models providing there is room  to locate the tubing hole required, a larger seal block can be supplied and shaped to fit any contour thus allowing the spindle nut to locate the thread. 
Price including post and packing in the UK £43.00 per pair, cheques payable to K Sparkes please.

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Sunbeam Talbot Competition Department

Half shaft oil seal carriers

Reproduced exactly for a customer with a works car we have a small run of these parts, developed to help keep oil away from the brake linings. They are made in Aluminium and react better to temperature than the original thin steel one. They are available to fit Mark2 onwards at £73.00 a pair including postage in the UK. 

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Spare Wheel Cover

Subeam Rapier, Singer Gazelle, Hillman Minx


Spare wheel cover made to an original pattern in the correct materials for 15 inch wheels only.
£40.00 plus £9.00 postage in the UK.

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