When Joe Woodcock installed a '65 Ford Cobra engine in his '66 Sunbeam Tiger, all kinds of minor mods ... to contain the power, a rear end had to be pieced from a Ford carrier and limited-slip ...

Before long, however, those same Windsor attributes would work just as well in the not-quite-so-famous Sunbeam Tiger ... of around 52/48 front/rear, and Tiger handling received glowing reviews ...

That’s how we got the Pontiac GTO, the Sunbeam Tiger, and the Shelby Cobra ... The 8.8-inch live rear axle is centered with a Watts link, and it all fits under the Focus quite nicely.

The seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Tiger claims to be Sunbeam rich ... and new exhaust that dumps ahead of the rear axle that look to have been added post rip van winkledom.

The flipside of that coin is the Sunbeam Tiger, ranging from $60,000 to well ... and the venerable Ford 8.8 rear axle, maintenance will never be an issue. Plus, the rarity of the Series III ...