Hillman Imp for sale?

I am looking for a new Imp project to follow the one I am working on now.

Do you know of a Hillman Imp or one of its re branded names anywhere in the Western Cape area of South Africa. Other areas considered but transport may be expensive?

For sale or trade and in a better condition than this GPO phone box please.

What can I say!

Roy

Singer Chamois for the Go Imp 50 year

This was December 2nd, 2013 and in the Hout Bay Harbour, the guy holding up the Imp Orange Tee Shirt is the
manager of The Lookout bar behind him.

Recomended for food and drinks and harbour views.

Roy

How to turn a Hillman Imp over to work on it

We use a turning jig to enable work on the underside of the car to be done correctly.

This jig set gives full control for the worker.

The turning is controled with two block & tackles.

Nice to have the right equipment!

Roy

Mk3 Hillman Imp door winders

In the process of a total strip down and rebuild, the 1971 Imp Deluxe has had the doors stripped.

Cleaned with Castrol de greasing fluid they cleaned up really well. The car has done some 90,000 miles and is now around 43 years old but these have worn well, in truth not at all?

 

Cleaned and washed with fresh water they are drying in the South African sun.

 

 

 

This is the spring loaded door catch release spring, its perfect.

Roy
 

Camping with Imps in Wales

I think so and the date was before late October 1968, as that was when I emigrated to Cape Town in South Africa.

Click on the image to enlarge it.

The blue Sunbeam Stiletto was mine, I did 19,000 miles in that car in ten months, that included two
camping holidays to Germany as well.

Note the Singer Chamois and the Ford Corsair, that was a nice car also.

Roy

The original Imp Laycock clutch and pressure plate

Whats so original about this you may ask?

Well the Hillman Imp came out in May of 1963 and its said that it was the first car to use this clutch plate design?

The car that used this design first is said to be the John Cooper F1 car and in 1962!

This is the later Mk2 size, its 6 1/4" in diameter and larger than the first cars.

Now I used to race a 998ccc Mk1 Imp here in Cape Town around 1972, I can not remember fitting a larger clutch?

Its said that the reason the smaller clutch plate was failing is back in the early sixties it was quite common for drivers to use second gear to move off as with cars they had driven before they were three speed and first was very low.

True or false?

Roy

Timing a Rootes competition Hillman Imp R20 camshaft

I have done this task many times, the method is writen down so its just a job of following the
instructions?

Sort of.

This is a brand new and Imported R20 camshaft, we fitted new tappet followers also.

You will need a dial gauge and a method to fasten it in place while the lift on number one tappet is set to 0.113"

Roy