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Sunbeam Alpine Resources
Sunbeam Alpine Rootes Factory Literature
All of the documents below have been processed with Adobe Acrobat's optical character recognition (OCR), so they should be fully searchable.
Workshop Manuals:
If you plan to work on your Alpine, these workshop manuals are essential. They are also a far better resource than the Haynes or Clymer manuals.
Owner's Manuals:
Parts Manuals:
Sunbeam Alpine Parts Manual - Includes part numbers and assembly drawings for all Alpine series I, II, III, IV, V. Some other OE part numbers are included as well (eg. Lucas).
Special Tuning Manual:
Sunbeam Alpine Series II Special Tuning - A handbook of performance modifications for the Series II Alpine. This handbook was intended to be used in conjunction with several factory performance kits.
Wiring Diagrams
Clubs
Books
Alpine, The Classic Sunbeam, by Chris McGovern, 1981 - This is the definitive Sunbeam Alpine book. History, technical information, lots more. Long out of print and can be hard to find, but used copies sometimes show up on Amazon or eBay.
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Performance Modification
Carburetors
Forums and Mailing Lists
Events
Suppliers
SAOC maintains a list of suppliers on their website.
Sunbeam-specific parts
Within the US
Overseas
Wiring and electrical
Gauges
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Nisonger rebuilds Smiths, Lucas, and Jaeger gauges and senders, including the early Sunbeam series I-II fuel tank sender.
They rebuild speedometers and can re-calibrate the gauge to work with an overdrive unit, even if the car didn't originally have one (or if the OD is from a different series).
They also can convert the early mechanical tachometer to electronic.
Tips and Tricks