Other little cars with V8s ?

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The Sunbeam Tiger has to be at the top of the list, after all it was featured on "Get Smart".

Trivia, do you recall that the later Tigers were powered by a Chrysler engine?

Back when I was in High School I saw an M-G TD that had had a Ford flat head "60" stuffed under the hood.

I go to a Doughnut Shop that has a local gathering on Saturday afternoons and saw a Triumph TR-4 with a small block Chevy 400 nestled in it.

Lots of floks are putting Chevy 350s in Jag sedans these days also.

The Cunningham, Allard and Curtis cars were all purpose built for competition with big bore American engines but never got the break that Shelby got with the Cobra.

After that Jensen (and Jensen-Heley) had a big Chrysler engine and lest we forget there was also the Citroen with a Masseretti mill.

The infamous gas shortage of the 70's and 80's made short work of most of the big block prototype cars at that time. Nothing much has come along to spark the interest until Saleene, and Rouch, started tweeking the Mustangs. Then the Cobra kit car market blossomed.

Now almost every manufacturer touts the "highest power in class" and tries to compair their offering to some of the old Muscle to boost sales. I guess some of them are pretty quick, lots of gimmicks but they just have no soul (which includes all ricers).