Terence Traceys Imp is a winner

Terence tells me he took second spot in the classic car racing championship this year in his new race Imp.

Zwartskop, South Africa.

This is great news as Terence built the car himself.

Roy

Fiat Topolino for sale

Well I think so, this is one of two I know about right now, the body is not bad at all, some parts and an engine may be available too?

Check those huge diameter tyres!

Is this the same era car?

500B 1948-1949 This development of the Topolino was introduced at the 1948 Geneva show. The engine, still of 569 cc was entirely new and had overhead valves. Details to the floor, a new steering wheel, brakes, suspension and electrical equipment were all improved. The only external difference is the new bonnet lock. Maximum speed was increased to 95 kph (59 mph) and fuel consumption improved to 5 litres per 100 km (56 mpg) 12-volt electrics.

Cape Town seems to have more parts for this car than I would ever have imagined.
Contact me for either buying the car as it is, or fully rebuilt?

Roy

Erics Imp upgrades

Who knows what Rootes Scotland, later Chrysler, would have done to upgrade the Imp, the archives show many ideas which were never introduced.

Maxine with here grandads Mk2 Imp, check the rear window frame behind her.

Forty five (45) years on and the rear opening window is well rusted, this is the second one fitted too, what to do ?

All pictures supplied by Eric Wells.

How about this for looking neat and as the designer may have wanted it to look like?

A message from Eric the cars owner is below, check the amount of details that went into his car this past few weeks.

Roy

I have just got it back from the panel-shop, who –

·         Filled the old holes for the name in the bonnet and tidied up some rust and a small dent,

·         Replaced the opening rear window with a fixed item which involved filling the hole for the lock and all the trim attachment holes – Roy McBride did this on the sprint car he has just completed and I liked the idea as you can see the condition of the old opening one (the inside was worse!),

·         Did some welding on the right hand side sill – we are lucky with our dry climate that our cars don’t suffer nearly as much as those in the UK and other colder countries,

·         Made a hole in the bonnet for the oil cooler which I will fit soon. I cut the mesh and fitted it with some self-tappers,

·         Resprayed the whole shell after doing some other buts and pieces of tidying up.

·         I fitted the later trim at the front which I know isn’t in period, but I like it, so there!

It goes without saying that I am thrilled with the results and am sorry that the car spends time in my garage under a cover and not on display!! Even the wife says that we must drive it more often, which is a bonus! Even our grand daughter approves!

All that remains is to fit the oil cooler (bought on e-bay) with the adapter delivered to Cape Town by James Spencer’s lady Jan a couple of years ago and a gearbox that hs synchro on second still, which is lying in the garage!

Best Regards,

Eric Wells

...the Beancoun

Imps are on the way up

This one will ship to Scotland this week. The car is a 1966 Singer Chamois Sport, car number 610 of only 2600 thought to have been produced.

This car is now some forty six (46) years old, I hope it makes the Imp Club meeting next May down in Coventry, England to join the members for the celebration of the realease of the first Imp May 6th, 1963, yes thats fifty (50) years of Imps by then!

Roy

Now shipping the 1966 Singer Chamois Sport

We can accept similar builds to other cars, Imps are a special car to us of course but a Ford two door Escort or Morris Mini would also be considered.

The car was taken back to a stripped body shell, then reppainted and re assembled back to a complete car.

Roy

The new Sunbeam Imp Sport

Chrysler continued with the theme that Rootes Scotland had started by bringing out a new look Sunbeam Imp.

This must have been after 1968 when the coupe version was released as the Sunbeam Stiletto. The Stiletto had a huge number of new features over the standard Imp, one body change was the twin head light clusters we see in this smart Sunbeam Sport.

Roy

How to connect a Smiths RV1 5000/00A rev counter

I wish I knew, as I found one just yesterday in a small car boot type sale.

This Smiths rev counter was in a bit of a mess, contact glue having been applied to the original plastic housing. With the internals removed I could clean that some.

Wires, well there is a black one, that was connected to nothing, there is a red and white one which clearly feeds the internal light.

Nice size, nice price and if it works a nice addition to the families 1967 Singer Chamois.

The ones that do the work will be the brown one, that was on a screw named 8 cyl, the blue wire was on a screw named 4 & 6 cyl, then two white wires, they like the brown and green wires enter the instrument via the mount stalk.

I have a fitting instruction for the Smiths ICT-02 ICT-03 rev counter, it clearly says :

Read these instructions carefully! incorrect connections may cause instant and permanent damage to the instrument or ignition system.

I think I will take this unit to Charles the guy who checked the wires on the Fraser replica Imp.

Roy

The Lotus Elan forum has this on the subject 

http://www.lotuselan.net/publish/bouncing_tach.shtml