New Tricks - Chrysler Sunbeam

[In The Pit]

Anyone see New Tricks tonight the plot featured a Chrysler Sunbeam an unusual choice! Im sure Brian Lane said is was a 1998 car???

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... d_Country/

[Albert Ross]

He did indeed, and there are 17 of them!!!! Obviously Grimes found a few, and released them onto the open market when they sold up!

[Pete-M]

Howmanyleft will be getting loads of enquiries now!

[richardthestag]

Wouldn't it have been a talbot sunbeam in 1978?

 

 

Nice motor though

[Rocket88]

T'was a "t" reg, so '78 model?

[M'coli]

1978 was the year Chrysler became Talbot, so it's not inconceivable for it to be a Chrysler on a T-reg. Nice colour too, we had a big tin of that colour in the shed for years .

[Richard]

Talbot badges didn't start appearing for ages after the name should have changed, and for a while cars were going out with bonnet badges fron one and grille badges from the other (can't remember which way round). My first legal car was a 1979 T Sunbeam and it was still a Chrysler.

[Guest]

I saw that and as well as thinking that he got the year wrong, I thought there won't be 17 green Sunbeams left in London.

[In The Pit]

Here it is:

The vehicle details for CPE 684T are:

Date of Liability 01 02 2013

Date of First Registration 01 05 1979

Year of Manufacture 1979

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1598cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Licence Not Due

Vehicle Colour GREEN

Vehicle Type Approval Not Available

Vehicle Excise Duty rate for vehicle

6 Months Rate £121.00

12 Months Rate £220.00

 

Registration CPE684T

Make CHRYSLER

Model SUNBEAM

Description GLS

 

A green one also appeared in Ashes To Ashes but is wearing different number plates:

 

 

 

[HillmanImp]

Talbot badges didn't start appearing for ages after the name should have changed, and for a while cars were going out with bonnet badges fron one and grille badges from the other (can't remember which way round). My first legal car was a 1979 T Sunbeam and it was still a Chrysler.

 

My Dads V reg Horizon had a Chrysler badge on the front, as did the T reg Sunbeam he had before it. I do have photos of these somewhere. I must dig them out.

[trigger]

 

I'm sure i know that number plate, Must have seen it at a show... In fact here it is at Bromley.

 

1979 Chrysler Sunbeam 1600 GLS by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[Micrashed]

Must be the same one - same colour, same trim level, same damn towbar!

( I mean in relation to A2A and New Tricks)

[Guest]

1978 was the year Chrysler became Talbot, so it's not inconceivable for it to be a Chrysler on a T-reg. Nice colour too, we had a big tin of that colour in the shed for years .

 

In 1978 Chrysler sold their european operations to PSA (Peugeot / Citroen) although the cars still went out with Chrysler badges until July 1979 (last month of the 'T' plate). That same month PSA made a lot of press coverage announcing the name change to Talbot presumably for the start the next month's new 'V' reg - August 1979. All dealers had to take off the Chrysler badges and replace them with Talbot badges for the new 'V' plate. Some of these cars obviously still had Chrysler references on them such as the pentastar on the grilles and Chrysler stamped chassis plates. This just affected early V reg cars that had been rebadged - all references to Chrysler soon disappeared as they got fully 'Talbotised' after a few months. I guess it made sense to have the new name at the start of a new reg plate. So all cars up to 'T' reg were Chryslers and 'V' reg onwards were Talbots. I've never seen a 'V' reg Chrysler though - if there was one it must have slipped through the net! These early Talbot badges had tall, thin lettering but soon changed to the short, fat style that some people maybe familiar with.

[In The Pit]

1978 was the year Chrysler became Talbot, so it's not inconceivable for it to be a Chrysler on a T-reg. Nice colour too, we had a big tin of that colour in the shed for years .

 

In 1978 Chrysler sold their european operations to PSA (Peugeot / Citroen) although the cars still went out with Chrysler badges until July 1979 (last month of the 'T' plate). That same month PSA made a lot of press coverage announcing the name change to Talbot presumably for the start the next month's new 'V' reg - August 1979. All dealers had to take off the Chrysler badges and replace them with Talbot badges for the new 'V' plate. Some of these cars obviously still had Chrysler references on them such as the pentastar on the grilles and Chrysler stamped chassis plates. This just affected early V reg cars that had been rebadged - all references to Chrysler soon disappeared as they got fully 'Talbotised' after a few months. I guess it made sense to have the new name at the start of a new reg plate. So all cars up to 'T' reg were Chryslers and 'V' reg onwards were Talbots. I've never seen a 'V' reg Chrysler though - if there was one it must have slipped through the net! These early Talbot badges had tall, thin lettering but soon changed to the short, fat style that some people maybe familiar with.

 

Informative first post thankyou and welcome

[Guest]

He did indeed, and there are 17 of them!!!! Obviously Grimes found a few, and released them onto the open market when they sold up!

 

Three Chrysler Sunbeam GLS left in the whole of the UK (plus five SORN). I reckon you'd trace the owner pretty quickly, even if the other cars were both in London!

[Shep Shepherd]

Someone in the village in Kent I grew up in had a T-reg Capri with a CPE registration

[hairymel]

on the the green gls -

owned by Debbie Holmes she does a lot of TV work with various cars including the yellow Sunbeam in the MacDonuts advert

 

Three Chrysler Sunbeam GLS left in the whole of the UK (plus five SORN)

 

there are at least 9 then

[RichardMoss]

Great cars - my dad used them as driving school cars and I learned to drive on a W reg 1300L.

[Cavcraft]

I learned to drive in a Sunbeam. 'Atlas' school of motoring, except his Atlas wasn't that good because the stupid f*ck*r didn't turn up for my test.