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Daimler SP250 Celebrates 50th Anniversary, Sidney Gets a Treat
in Classical Drives, on July 3, 2009
...ow in the sedan to short-and-wide in the sports car. But the tailfins could easily have come from a Rootes Motors' Sunbeam Alpine. And that's ironic because when Chrysler bought Rootes, it qui...
Driving With the World's First Computer-based Rally Navigator
in Classical Drives, on April 20, 2009
...ager to team with a navigator to keep us on track and on time. The start, from a ramp in front of Rootes Motors in a Toronto suburb, would have done Hollywood proud. Searchlights probing the sky; ...
Why Selling-Off Automobile Marques is a Bad Idea
in Classical Drives, on December 29, 2008
...B the results are usually disastrous. Ironically, it was Chrysler itself that bought Britain's Rootes and soon destroyed it and all Roote's great marques, then did the same to France's ...
Coast-to-Coast by Rail in a Classic Cadillac
in Classical Drives, on January 24, 2008
...artist Went Folkins who, when I first knew him, had purchased a British Singer Gazelle, one of the Rootes conglomerate's badge-engineered cars. By co-incidence the very next day our contributor N...
Famous Railway Artist Falls for a Singer Gazelle
in Classical Drives, on January 15, 2008
...an upright grille, his Gazelle was a badge-engineered Hillman Minx from the days when England's Rootes had absorbed Sunbeam, Singer and Humber, three once-admired marques that had fallen on hard t...
A Tale of Sunbeams, LeMans, Harrington, and Classical Drive's Nigel Matthews
in Classical Drives, on September 27, 2007
...give him for mentioning this delicious bit of history:
His mother is a good friend of Lady Marion Rootes and Nigel is also an acquaintance of Christine Harrington, daughter of Thomas Harrington, who...
Steamworks Report No. 7: 1963 Sunbeam Rapier
in Classical Drives, on September 6, 2006
...urs . Sunbeam, once a proudly independent producer of sporting automobiles, had been taken into the Rootes empire, after which it slowly turned into a badge-engineered Hillman, though not before givin...