1968 Sunbeam Alpine GT [Arrow]
1968 Sunbeam Alpine GT [Arrow] in I ragazzi della Roma violenta, Movie, 1976
Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: 
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![1968 Sunbeam Alpine GT [Arrow]](/i001048962.jpg)
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Comments about this vehicle
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◊ 2017-07-03 10:27 |
![[Image: _00_33_50-2354-02-15-12h46m09s495.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/3890/_00_33_50-2354-02-15-12h46m09s495.jpg) |
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◊ 2017-07-03 11:03 |
Rootes [Arrow] fastback. |
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◊ 2017-07-03 11:20 |
Unusually, with side markers? |
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◊ 2017-07-03 13:20 |
Suggests US spec, where renamed as Alpine GT. Can't think of any other explanation for side-markers and Italy an unlikely Rapier market. |
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◊ 2017-07-03 15:30 |
Never seen one in Italy. US spec. for me, too. There were many US Army Officiers serving in Italy who drive Cars with US spec. |
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◊ 2017-07-03 15:39 |
But anyway was available for sale in Italy: Link to "www.archiviolastampa.it" In this newspaper article, it's stated that the importer, Simca Italia, has lowered the prices for the fully imported Sunbeam models to have a bigger competitiveness, for a larger diffusion in the Italian market which was considered very "important" at the time. I guess this strategy didn't worked very well... |
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◊ 2017-07-03 15:55 |
I've always thought that late 60s was a golden age for Italian styling for small-medium sports cars - Alfa, Fiat, Lancia all making really beautiful cars. Although this is a Rootes-jewel, it's about as pretty as a house brick so I can't imagine an Italian thinking "Mmmm - I must have a Rapier instead of 124 Coupé/Alfa 2000 GTV/Lancia 2000 Coupé". |
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◊ 2017-07-03 16:41 |
Given the choice between the Arrow Rapier and one of the last Audax cars is no contest, but I can't say I thought much of the Fiat 124 coupé, preferring the Special T Berlina. |
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◊ 2017-07-03 20:50 |
I think that the average Italian couldn't have thought that exact words, because likely he didn't know what a "Sunbeam" was, despite even being advertised. Link to "www.archiviolastampa.it"  But in my humble opinion, I think that's more likely that's really an Italian-spec car, instead of a US-spec car that probably was even more unknown among the very few Americans living in Italy and also that at the time, I suppose, they were preferring American or Italian cars. |
