Mundane News

[Reynard]

That was on an early Corolla but the car I would associate them with was the Hillman Avenger.

With that L-shaped rear light cluster...

 

[tyred]

Why can't you use a car like nearly everybody else?

Who wants to be like everybody else?

 

[Jenkins]

This had to be done!
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Is that Quin & Jez in the background?

Spoiler: For the uninitiated

Private Eye's hipster pastiche

 

[tyred]

The other advantage of driving a vintage tractor is that you can teach Audi drivers how to be patient

 

[slowmotion]

Any Hillman Imp fans? Didn't they have an aluminium engine block? I melted one down at school in the tiny foundry to produce an entirely worthless sculpture mounted on a lovely piece of yew. Ah....youthful pretention.

 

[Reynard]

Nope, a Mini fan, here. (original, not the new fake jobbie)

Dad had a Hillman, but a Super Minx estate, grey with a dark green roof.

 

[tyred]

The Imp was a lovely little car. I would be happy to have one.

 

[Jenkins]

Another lovely sunny day in south east Suffolk and I'm getting the hang of this relaxing thing. After the late morning cuppa & a pot of yoghurt for beakfast I stuck a load of towels on to wash and then went for an eight mile stroll into Felixstowe, along the seafront and back home again. By this time the wash cycle had been completed so the towels went on the line to dry, a load of shirts went in the machine for washing and the deck chair got set up in the back garden where I stayed for the next couple of hours with the radio, a book, another coffee and a pint of squash.

And, other than the slightly exciting news that the recycling bin has been put out, that's as much as I've done today.

 

[tyred]

What was worrying today is that I found myself admiring a Rover 213. I must be getting old

 

[Reynard]

The Imp was a lovely little car. I would be happy to have one.

The camber on the front wheels was a bit of a challenge to the eye IIRC...

 

[Jenkins]

I had a Hillman Imp in the mid '80s. Something broke in the ignition switch so you could turn the electics on with the key, but not go any further to engage the starter motor. I ended up hotwiring it so that I used a flick switch to start the engine. It had 'interesting' handling in the wet or icy conditions and I seem to remember that the engine was based on a Coventry Climax fire pump motor.

 

[Jenkins]

What was worrying today is that I found myself admiring a Rover 213. I must be getting old

Admiring, or wondering how it had survived?

 

[tyred]

The camber on the front wheels was a bit of a challenge to the eye IIRC...

Looks pretty good to me

 

[Reynard]

It had 'interesting' handling in the wet or icy conditions.

Always the case with rear-engined cars...

 

[Reynard]

Looks pretty good to me

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That's cheating! It's not a head-on photo

But you can see that the top of the front wheels are angled outwards quite a bit.