Gwylan
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Using Hilman Imp and powered in the same sentence requires a negative or perjorative
Gwylan
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Often driven by deluded fat birds
Richard A Thackeray
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There’s a mk2 MR2 near daughter & chaps house, partially covered with a tarpaulin
Plus, a few years ago (date 'stamp' - 2014), I came back one morning, to find this outside the house (MR2 underpinnings?)
We had 4 Unos, ‘back in the day’
1. ‘F’ 3-door petrol
Castle Bolton, or Redmire (North Yorkshire) after a weekend away
2. ‘H’ 3-door petrol (no photo that I can find on hard-drives)
3. 5-door petrol
North Yorkshire
Black Rock Sands
Porthmadoc
4. ‘L’ 3-door diesel
Torside Reservoir, in the 'Woodhead Chain'
5. Followed by a ‘M’ Punto 3-door turbo-diesel
Father-in-laws (but he wasn't at that time.. yet) 'M' Tempra behind, both bought on same day
(last 3 were bought new)
6. Then a hateful Tempra estate, that put us off FIATs for a lot of few years (till into the 2010s)
When these were bought, I wanted a Fabia, to go with my Octavia, but there were better deals at the FIAT dealer
'61' plate
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biggs682
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Driven quite a few Mr2's back in the day either company cars or customers cars in for service at the Toyota garages that I worked at , good fun .
One company I worked for gave us diesel Fiat Bravo's as our company cars they were good and survived better than the Golfs that replaced them that's for sure.
One company I worked for gave us diesel Fiat Bravo's as our company cars they were good and survived better than the Golfs that replaced them that's for sure.
gbb
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Iirc they were a very light and tunable engine.
Even back around 1975, I remember going to a Vintage Motorcycle Club meet where they were doing 1/4 mile standing starts. There was among mostly Velocetres, Vincent's, AJS's and the usual, some homebrews which included an Imp engined bike, it literally vroom vroomed,, a very unique sound, fastest bike by a country mile,. It obv beat the vintages but all the oddities as well
I can still smell that meet, oil, fuel, rubber, ...and noise. Brilliant...
gbb
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Iirc they were a very light and tunable engine.
Even back around 1975, I remember going to a Vintage Motorcycle Club meet where they were doing 1/4 mile standing starts. There was among mostly Velocetres, Vincent's, AJS's and the usual, some homebrews which included an Imp engined bike, it literally vroom vroomed,, a very unique sound, fastest bike by a country mile,. It obv beat the vintages but all the oddities as well
I can still smell that meet, oil, fuel, rubber, ...and noise. Brilliant...
Drago
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Indeed. Developed from a fire pump engine, IIRC. Alloy, quite advanced in sk e ways, very tune able, moderately popular for home brewed 4 cylinder motorbike conversions BITD.
I think the under developed and half baked installation in the rear of the Imp was more the problem than the actual motor itself,
Gwylan
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I know, I drove an Imp. Not mine.
It could be encouraged to move.
Had to be driven a bit hard though.
What ever happened to the owner? It was a messy end.
Richard A Thackeray
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Many years ago, the Transport Department, at the Hospital I work at had Tempras (or whatever the 5-door hatchback was called) as general runabouts, ie; lab samples/post/medical records/xray packets between sites
raleighnut
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There were quite a few Imp powered sidecar outfits, mainly Windle frames. Not eligible for 'grand prix' events (500cc limit) but used in 'National' and Clubman events. Largely supplanted in the mid 70's by Yamaha TZ 750 (and 700cc) motors which were lighter and more powerful.
The wheel has gone 'full circle' now though with a lot of 'hot' Imps using 4 cylinder BMW motorbike engines (K1000)
biggs682
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A few classic cars at Earls Barton show this morning not as many as previous years.
Hard to choose just one
Hard to choose just one
biggs682
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And a few more including my favourite Mark 2 Lotus Cortina
Drago
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Fantastic!
The Mk2 Lotus Cortina was made in house by Ford and not by Lotus, so technically the Mk2 is a Cortina Lotus and not a Lotus Cortina. That one is a pearler, probably worth some serious dollar.
None of thr Mk2's left the factory with a stripe, but dealers were only too happy to have them painted on and separate the buyer from even more or their hard earned.
The Mk2 Lotus Cortina was made in house by Ford and not by Lotus, so technically the Mk2 is a Cortina Lotus and not a Lotus Cortina. That one is a pearler, probably worth some serious dollar.
None of thr Mk2's left the factory with a stripe, but dealers were only too happy to have them painted on and separate the buyer from even more or their hard earned.
