SITTING PRETTY

The sports car market of the 1960s was a more sophisticated arena than it had been in the previous decade. Where before buyers were happy with hoods which resembled tents and side curtains in place of proper windows, the Sunbeam Alpine had changed the expectations of the average buyer. The MGA was therefore replaced in 1962 with the more comfortable MGB, while over at Triumph the TR3A was revised heavily into the TR4 of 1961. This car looked very different owing to its new Michelotti body, but under the skin much was carried over from its predecessor.

Two more different approaches to the sports car it was hard to imagine, but buyers of the Alpine might have considered the TR4 and vice versa in