A Sunbeam Vogue is not exactly an everyday occurrence. This white copy still looks fine at first glance, which is not always common for British cars from the 1970s.
By the way, don’t be misled by the brand name ‘Sunbeam’. It has little to do with the original Sunbeam from before the war. Sunbeam had already been sold in 1935 to the Rootes Group, which mainly focused on mass production. Sunbeam became the sporting brand within this group. Rootes also owned the Hillman brand. After the war, Rootes marketed the successful Sunbeam Alpine, among other things. It’s going too far to cram the complete history of the manufacturer into this one article, mainly because it’s quite a mess, but eventually a whole range of models came on the market under the Rootes Arrow name. The Sunbeam Vogue was one of them.
The Vogue was initially marketed as Singer Vogue, but with the disappearance of the Singer brand name, Sunbeam replaced it. The Sunbeam Vogue was positioned slightly above the Hillman Hunter, a model that was also part of the Arrow line. In terms of design, the Sunbeam hardly differs from the Hillman. The sedan has rectangular headlights and taillights and the window line of the side windows is also quite straight forward. This particular example has been brightened up with a set of yellow spotlights on the front bumper. It was imported to the Netherlands in March last year and has been in the hands of the same owner ever since. Under the hood is a 1.7 four-cylinder with 73 hp. This means that the 959 kilo sedan should still be able to keep up with traffic.
This example was built in 1970 and is therefore one of the last Vogues built. In the end, the model was only in production for four years. Pepe41 shared the Sunbeam via the what-you-saw-for-special-today topic in the Techzle Forum. We thank him very much for sharing and invite everyone to take a look at the topic!