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Obiwan Kenobi · #1 Post by **Obiwan Kenobi** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 12:10 pm

Saw this at an airshow recently.

V8 power from I think two 4 cyl hillman imp engines.

Interesting....

spiderwheels · #2 Post by **spiderwheels** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 1:41 pm

That makes me want to cry. All that technical brilliance to create something hideous, ill-handling and dog slow (60bhp?)

flatlander · #3 Post by **flatlander** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 1:44 pm

does look a bit like the b@stard love child of a bmw having forced itself violently on one of her majesties postboxes

Willopotomas · #4 Post by **Willopotomas** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:11 pm

Urm.. Yeh. Admire the engineering, but the dude shouldn't have been allowed to design the cosmetic aspect..

fatboy · #5 Post by **fatboy** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 6:33 pm

spiderwheels wrote:That makes me want to cry. All that technical brilliance to create something hideous, ill-handling and dog slow (60bhp?)

my thoughts also, immense talent,no sense

D-Rider · #6 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:29 pm

I know we all do things just because we can ...... but in this case ......

WHY ?

squadron Nero · #7 Post by **squadron Nero** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:37 pm

Cannot be unseen!

nicketynoo · #8 Post by **nicketynoo** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 9:42 pm

And they're locking people up for beastiality??

fatboy · #9 Post by **fatboy** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 8:44 pm

nicketynoo wrote:And they're locking people up for beastiality??

Im sure this qualifies as a similar crime

Dusty · #10 Post by **Dusty** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:22 am

I would have posted sooner but I just couldn't find the words. Thankfully, the rest of you could. Are you sure that it's a V8 and not two separate Imp engines, one as an installed spare? I have clear recollections, from the late 70s, of the Imp-engined racing sidecar outfits. Quick for a few laps before they blew up.

D-Rider · #11 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:55 am

I had a number of Imps - The rationale was that they were not too bad for what I could afford and easy to work on. Even pulling the engine out was a piece of cake.
The down side was that they needed to be easy to work on as they were completely unreliable - particularly in the head gasket department.

Eventually saw the light and realised that a car that is reliable is better than one that's relatively easy to work on .....

BikerGran · #12 Post by **BikerGran** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:17 pm

Easy to work on?????

remember me and my then hubby (we did a lot of work on folks' cars) trying to change, oh may have been a water pump or some other ancillary. But you couldn't get that off till you got something else off, and that wouldn't come off till you got the water pump off (or whatever it was) - and once it was fixed it was still bloody 'orrible!