Around 7100 Sunbeam Tigers were built between 1964 and 1967. Following the recipe that had already worked for the Shelby Cobra, a Ford V8 engine was implanted in the Sunbeam Alpine, which was normally equipped with four cylinders, resulting in unrivaled performance and plenty of sex appeal. This report shows the fast roadster in current and historical pictures and summarizes the history of the eight-cylinder Englishman.