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Post by v8sceptre on Jan 16, 2009 22:51:07 GMT
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Post by bobafett on Feb 7, 2009 16:20:16 GMT
Great find... Have noticed that Canada was a popular country for Rootes cars to be exported - must be a simple reason? Did you see on the website the project for 2011 - a Sunbeam Alpine trip from Vancouver to Beirut  |
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Post by sunbeammadd on Feb 7, 2009 21:41:11 GMT
Have noticed that Canada was a popular country for Rootes cars to be exported - must be a simple reason? Rootes, and British cars in general, always sold well in the colonies. Here in Australia we only bought British or American cars before the 1960s. Still suspicious of Johnny Foreigner and all that! We still thought of ourselves as part of the Empire so a British car was a patriotic purchase. As in Britain it was unusual to drive a French, or German, or Italian car. Things changed when the Japanese arrived though. Value for money won out. |
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