No Reserve.

Registration No: 8768 VF Chassis No: B30535660DHC0 MOT: Exempt

Desirable Convertible example, fitted with overdrive
In the vendor’s private collection since 2007
Benefitting from a full cosmetic restoration in the 1990s, which still presents well
Full engine overhaul completed in 2008/2009, with just some 2,500 miles covered since

Announced at the London Motor Show of 1955, the Sunbeam Rapier was the first of a new range of Rootes cars that was soon to include the Hillman Minx and Singer Gazelle.

A complete departure from the Sunbeam MKIII it replaced, it was a modern-looking two-door, four-seat saloon.

Standard equipment included leather trim and overdrive, and the cars were finished in a selection of attractive two-tone colour schemes.

The bodies were built by Pressed Steel, shipped to Thrupp & Maberly in London for painting and trimming, and then moved to the Rootes plant at Ryton-on-Dunsmore for final assembly.

Though initially a little underpowered, the Rapier h...