Hello there,
I left England in 2012 but kept the Imp safe and sound in a garage in the UK for when I came home to play with, I now have no intention of moving back, I've just got a Canadian visa so I'm in the process of selling everything I can't take with me.
If you like this look of this then keep reading
The car is taxed and tested and could be driven away today.
Shell:
1965 Hillman Imp
New sills
New wings
Seam welded chassis
Strengthening square section welded above swing arm location points
Strengthened seat fixings (from sills to tunnel)
Strengthening plates for roll cage
6-point Safety Devices rollcage
Bolt in harness bar
Front shocker/spring carrier modified (access through bonnet)
Welded in strut brace pickup points (no strut brace fitted)
Lightened doors
Polycarbonate windows (except windscreen)
Heated windscreen
Fibreglass bonnet and engine lid/boot
Alloy rear valance
Underside fully stone chipped
Bare-metal respray in Casablanca white (10L glacier white) with Rangers blue stripe
Tow points to front
Modified grill for increased air flow
Twin windscreen wiper water pumps
Interior:
Sparco FIA bucket seats on custom brackets
3 point harnesses
Custom alloy dash
Motor meter gauges
Oil temp
Water temp
Oil pressure
Voltage
Boost
Smiths Telemetrix speedometer
10 inch steering wheel
FIA cut-off switch
OMP drivers foot rest (not fitted but included)
Fire extinguisher
Engine:
1985 Mazda 12a Rotary engine
48 Racing Beat Dellorto Sidedraught carb
Facet Redtop fuel pump
4 gallon alloy baffled fuel tank
Filter King fuel filter/pressure regulator with fuel pressure gauge
Hurley performance intake
ITG intake filter
Double accelerator cable/linkage
Bespoke coolant pipes
Alloy header tank
Alloy oil catch tank
Relocated oil filter
Merlin motorsport oil lines and Goodrich connectors
Mocal oil thermostat
25 row oil cooler with 8 inch fan (manual switch)
Alloy front mounted radiator with twin 12 inch fan (one on thermo-switch, one on manual switch)
Bespoke exhaust manifold with exhaust wrap
Micron race motorbike tail can
Oil Metering Pump removed and blocked off with alloy blanking plate (running 1-100 premix)
Sealed battery in battery box (in front)
Bespoke engine/gearbox mounts (polyurethane)
Eaton M90 supercharger
Bespoke plenum
Toothed Gilmer drives
RX8 sump
Baffle plate in sump
Jacobs FC2000 Fire Control Ignition Systems
Davies Craig Electric Water pump
Relocated Alternator
Transmission:
1979 VW type 2 gearbox
Empi quickshift on bespoke linkage assembly
Kennedy Engineering (California) alloy adapter plate
Kennedy Engineering Stage 2 clutch
Modified VW flywheel
Mazda automatic counterweight
Hybrid driveshafts: VW inner CV to Imp UJ outer, interference fit/TIG welded 1 inch diameter
Stainless braided/copper clutch lines
Braking:
Nissan Micra discs/callipers to front
Nissan Micra disks/Sierra Cosworth callipers to rear
Fly-off vertical hydraulic handbrake
Stainless braided/copper brake lines
Bias pedal box with dash adjuster. 0.7 to front 0.625 to rear
Suspension and foot work:
Spax adjustable with adjustable platforms to front with 300lb 7 inch springs
Spax adjustable to rear with 800lb 8 inch racing springs
Seam welded/gusseted/strengthened swing arms/trailing arms
Polybushed all round
Minilight replica alloy wheels 6x13 all round
Colway 185 intermediates all round
Camber adjusted front end.
I am willing to see the car in 2 specifications:
£6500 including a spare standard 870cc Hillman Imp engine and 2 standard gearboxes (were all previously working but cannot guarantee that now) and a spare set of 12” Minilight replica wheels 12X6+22 (no tyres)
Or
£5500 without the current engine/transmission setup (12a engine and Type II gearbox) but I will including the Hillman engine and gearboxes - so a high spec rolling shell ready to fit a 998cc and go racing, sprints, hillclimbs etc.
Not too much fabrication was required to fit the current drive train so could easily be put back to standard, modifications can be seen in the pictures (not sure if the original gearbox/engine mounts were retained)
If you require any more information or pictures, please let me know. I’ll have someone in the UK available for viewings etc. If you're interested, PM me your UK land line number and a good time to call and I'll call you off my VoIP Phone.
I know it's not the best time of year for selling a car, but I'm in no rush, I am contracted in France until May and don't plan to enter Canada until November.
Plenty of pictures in an album here, including build pics so you can see what fabrication was done to fit the engine/gearbox, suspension mods, front radiator mods etc
s293.photobucket.com/user/badkron/library/Hillman?sort=3&page=1
Imp Engine and gearboxes etc pictures here:
The car is somewhere in Surrey, not too far from Guildford.
Amazing fun to drive.
I left England in 2012 but kept the Imp safe and sound in a garage in the UK for when I came home to play with, I now have no intention of moving back, I've just got a Canadian visa so I'm in the process of selling everything I can't take with me.
If you like this look of this then keep reading
The car is taxed and tested and could be driven away today.
Shell:
1965 Hillman Imp
New sills
New wings
Seam welded chassis
Strengthening square section welded above swing arm location points
Strengthened seat fixings (from sills to tunnel)
Strengthening plates for roll cage
6-point Safety Devices rollcage
Bolt in harness bar
Front shocker/spring carrier modified (access through bonnet)
Welded in strut brace pickup points (no strut brace fitted)
Lightened doors
Polycarbonate windows (except windscreen)
Heated windscreen
Fibreglass bonnet and engine lid/boot
Alloy rear valance
Underside fully stone chipped
Bare-metal respray in Casablanca white (10L glacier white) with Rangers blue stripe
Tow points to front
Modified grill for increased air flow
Twin windscreen wiper water pumps
Interior:
Sparco FIA bucket seats on custom brackets
3 point harnesses
Custom alloy dash
Motor meter gauges
Oil temp
Water temp
Oil pressure
Voltage
Boost
Smiths Telemetrix speedometer
10 inch steering wheel
FIA cut-off switch
OMP drivers foot rest (not fitted but included)
Fire extinguisher
Engine:
1985 Mazda 12a Rotary engine
48 Racing Beat Dellorto Sidedraught carb
Facet Redtop fuel pump
4 gallon alloy baffled fuel tank
Filter King fuel filter/pressure regulator with fuel pressure gauge
Hurley performance intake
ITG intake filter
Double accelerator cable/linkage
Bespoke coolant pipes
Alloy header tank
Alloy oil catch tank
Relocated oil filter
Merlin motorsport oil lines and Goodrich connectors
Mocal oil thermostat
25 row oil cooler with 8 inch fan (manual switch)
Alloy front mounted radiator with twin 12 inch fan (one on thermo-switch, one on manual switch)
Bespoke exhaust manifold with exhaust wrap
Micron race motorbike tail can
Oil Metering Pump removed and blocked off with alloy blanking plate (running 1-100 premix)
Sealed battery in battery box (in front)
Bespoke engine/gearbox mounts (polyurethane)
Eaton M90 supercharger
Bespoke plenum
Toothed Gilmer drives
RX8 sump
Baffle plate in sump
Jacobs FC2000 Fire Control Ignition Systems
Davies Craig Electric Water pump
Relocated Alternator
Transmission:
1979 VW type 2 gearbox
Empi quickshift on bespoke linkage assembly
Kennedy Engineering (California) alloy adapter plate
Kennedy Engineering Stage 2 clutch
Modified VW flywheel
Mazda automatic counterweight
Hybrid driveshafts: VW inner CV to Imp UJ outer, interference fit/TIG welded 1 inch diameter
Stainless braided/copper clutch lines
Braking:
Nissan Micra discs/callipers to front
Nissan Micra disks/Sierra Cosworth callipers to rear
Fly-off vertical hydraulic handbrake
Stainless braided/copper brake lines
Bias pedal box with dash adjuster. 0.7 to front 0.625 to rear
Suspension and foot work:
Spax adjustable with adjustable platforms to front with 300lb 7 inch springs
Spax adjustable to rear with 800lb 8 inch racing springs
Seam welded/gusseted/strengthened swing arms/trailing arms
Polybushed all round
Minilight replica alloy wheels 6x13 all round
Colway 185 intermediates all round
Camber adjusted front end.
I am willing to see the car in 2 specifications:
£6500 including a spare standard 870cc Hillman Imp engine and 2 standard gearboxes (were all previously working but cannot guarantee that now) and a spare set of 12” Minilight replica wheels 12X6+22 (no tyres)
Or
£5500 without the current engine/transmission setup (12a engine and Type II gearbox) but I will including the Hillman engine and gearboxes - so a high spec rolling shell ready to fit a 998cc and go racing, sprints, hillclimbs etc.
Not too much fabrication was required to fit the current drive train so could easily be put back to standard, modifications can be seen in the pictures (not sure if the original gearbox/engine mounts were retained)
If you require any more information or pictures, please let me know. I’ll have someone in the UK available for viewings etc. If you're interested, PM me your UK land line number and a good time to call and I'll call you off my VoIP Phone.
I know it's not the best time of year for selling a car, but I'm in no rush, I am contracted in France until May and don't plan to enter Canada until November.
Plenty of pictures in an album here, including build pics so you can see what fabrication was done to fit the engine/gearbox, suspension mods, front radiator mods etc
s293.photobucket.com/user/badkron/library/Hillman?sort=3&page=1
Imp Engine and gearboxes etc pictures here:
The car is somewhere in Surrey, not too far from Guildford.
Amazing fun to drive.
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