Well, here are the best of the photographs my friend took of the Sunbeam Talbot. First, let me tell you a little about Bill Parrott, the finder and now owner of the car. He is a car guy. Period. When I visited his home and shop, I found several gleaming 1958 Chevrolets, in near showroom condition, a 1963(?) Chevy convertible, A late forties Cadillac restored, and the creme de la creme a 1938 hot rodded ford humpback 2 door sedan that is flawless. He drives a 1950ish GMC pickup as his daily driver and he has all the shop tools you can think of and more. So he is not a shade tree type of guy. He regularly visits car salvage yards searching for stuff and he found this car that way. He said when he saw it, it simply had to come home with him because it was too good a looking car to be crushed like the rest of the riff raff. When he saw me at the geezer breakfast with my other friends, he came over and mentioned this car since he knew I was a Tiger/Alpine race car guy. He indicated that his first motive in buying the car was to make a litle cruiser out of it..something to run down tot he local pub in or to the club meeting at breakfast. He was going to install a modern motor and tranny. He may have rethought that idea now, I hope so. The photos you se show the car at it's worst. Just envision what it can be, not what it is. Remember it has set neglected for some many many years somewhere in the desert without any care at all. So it looks bad...initially. In fact it does not come up to a description of bad that my alpine race car was before it became the wannabe car. If you want to contact bill directly, you can reach him at baparrott@teknett.com at least for this coming week. He is moving to McAlaster, Oklahome and many of his possessions have already left. Or if this link doesn't work, I can maybe get in touch with him when he gets a new email addy. Mine is drmayf@mayfco.com

I have tried to get the best shot of the vin possible.
I did verify that the number is A3011720. And this tag
lays sideways on the cowl which is funny and hard to read
to begin with.

Just took a photo of this tag in case it might be important.

Ok, lots of light rust, but no cancer at all. The spare tire
door is off it's hinges but I later straightened it up and it
is all there and fits. Of course the bumpers need redoing but
the upriders are there as well. When the trunk is opened, it looks
pretty fair inside but still needs lots of work.

This is the pits! But all the metal work is there. It sat uot
for many years this way so it is bad. But immenently restorable
as nothing sees to be missing.

Well this view shows the hood up and the grill work that needs
straightening. The chrome actually appears to be in good shape.
Headlight rings are all there, just needs new bulbs and cleaning
up. Bumper needs rechroming, but all there including the
overriders. The front end is independent with an odd steering
arrangement.

Norm Miller wanted a photo of the body number so here it is.
The tag has an embossed B.L.S.P. LTD and the words Body Number
followed by the number STC 10451

The badging on the grill is in pretty good shape with no or
little rust. The marks on the grill shell are just marks and
not rust or scratches. Actually pretty cool.

This is the driver's side of the motor. Looks to be pretty
much there. Since it was an odd vehicle to begin with, not
likely too many scroungers been taking parts from it.

AThis is the frontal view of the motor. Notice the coffee
can over where the carb would normally be. When I looked
in the compartment, I spotted a number just in front of the
can on the intake manifold and I could make out 1720 stamped
there. Bob H. says this is part of the head, but it certainly
did not look that way to me. Again pretty complets. Bill thinks
if it will turn over, he can get it running!