Description Fully restored between 2006 - 2013 at vast expense and only 12,000 fine-weather miles since; floor-change gearbox; two former keepers, both in the same family; one of only 391 made in RHD; a magnificent example of this gorgeous sports roadster at a 'come-and-get-me' guide price Forever associated with Grace Kelly cruising the French Riviera in the Hitchcock classic To Catch a Thief , the Sunbeam Alpine was perhaps the most glamorous British car of the 1950s, a welcome ray of sunshine in an otherwise pretty grim era of scrimp-and-save austerity.

Launched in 1953, the Alpine was based on the existing Sunbeam-Talbot 90 saloon but with styling input from Raymond Loewy to add the sparkle needed to attract the vital American market.

The curvaceous Roadster body was largely hand-built by Thrupp & Maberly while the 2,267cc four-cylinder overhead-valve engine received a power boost to 80bhp courtesy of a revised cylinder head.

A further blaze of publicity was achieved when, on it...