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[Orangutan]

My first car was an NSU Prinz (very similar to Hilman imp)
Same stories, Sandbags in the front to keep the nose on the tarmack.

I changed the engine once - very easy to do, but must have had some bits left over, I was driving along, "lost" 4th gear, carried on, "lost" 3rd", started to get a bit concerned, heard an almighty bang followed my scraping noise, got out to find engine (still running) sitting on the road under the car !

Jacked it up, re-did the bolts and drove home !

[wobbegong]

I remember pushing my mates Imp around the streets of Fulham in the small hours, trying desperately to bump start it.

[Paddy]

Easy to get the engine out. Undo seven bolts, disconnect electrics and push the car forward. Had to keep a 22kg sand bag under the bonnet to stop the front from blowing in the wind.


PS. "Man in the Suitcase" car.

http://www.channel4.com/4car/ft/feature/top+ten/1734/6

[MrsGoof]

had one for a week until the floor collapsed around that damn vertical clutch pedal

classic car !

[cojak]

I blew my Hillman Imp up on the M5.

I was doing 85mph with 2 mates in it at the time

My 1st car - happy days....

(it was a wonderful metallic sh1t brown colour...)

[thunderlizard]

After Jeanette Winterson got rejected from Oxford she drove down there in a Hillman Imp and banged on the senior tutor's door begging them to reconsider. It worked too, the spawny tyke.

[Moscow Mule]

(P.S. I'm thinking of buying a Hillman Imp - anyone any Imp stories they'd care to share?)

I knew a chap once who had a 2.8 litre engine in an Imp (for rallying).

He used to challenge boy racers at traffic lights...

[wendigo100]

I'm thinking of buying a Hillman Imp - anyone any Imp stories they'd care to share?

I was in one that rolled over at 60mph down the A6 once. That was an Imp estate though. Aluminium head IIRC.

[Bagpuss]

You sir are a class act!

[threaded]

Jeremys been on here to have a look. Don't know if he registered though.

[Clippy]

... more and more like Top Gear on here.

Just waiting for the inevitable first post by Jeremy Clarkson or Richard 'Evil Knieval' Hammond.

(P.S. I'm thinking of buying a Hillman Imp - anyone any Imp stories they'd care to share?)