New project at hirsts performance classics
I know it's not a ford but summit new

 

Love that! Always craved for an Imp.

 

a mate built one years ago with a renault 5 turbo lump in it it was mental

 

My Dads old mechanic used to race one, everytime the firebrigade had a surpluss sale, Dad used to let the chap know as the old hand carry portable pumps used a tuned climax engine, almost all had low use too.

 

That's wicked

 

Nice to see that, my Mum's first car was an IMP and a friend of ours has a very nice tidy one, we went to the national IMP rally few years back, was good day out. Best of luck with the restoration.

 

mint!!

 

Thanks for the replays guys
It is gonna be our first project at hirsts performance classics outside the mk1 Cossie p100
It's been sat for 29 years and surprisingly immaculate underneath
Can't wait to get this running

 

My mate had one about 30 yrs ago he always kept bags of sand in the front to supposedly help with understeer and give it a 50/50 Weight distribution!!!!

 

had one of these myself back in 1981 as a real fun toy, great to work on and had bags of fun in it

 

don't see many of these anymore, nice project keep us updated

 

Always wanted one Theres a nice red one on instagram just now if your on there.

Cool project.

 

Love imps, looking forward to updates on this

 

Hi I had several back in the day when you could buy a good one for Ł250
I had a singer Chamois ( Posh Imp)
IT was lowered on hartwell springs and had 175x12 Rallye specials
Went round corners like it was on rails
Cibie diping oscars on it
Fun times

 

I had the one also with the slopped back called the stiletto, had a twin 40 on it was way cool back then and now, its the time in-between that was sneered at lol

 

Nice one- the father in law has three of them

 

cheers for the support guys it's currently under decisions to rebuild the engine or add a nice little bike engine

 

Love these, always wanted one

 

Great fun cars! I had a white stileto as my first car. After owning it for quite a few years and seeing about 4 engines and a gearbox and many many driveshaft donuts, it ended up a 938cc with lightened and balanced crank, skimmed and big valve head and sport cam, a twin choke webber off a escort and a 4 branch exhaust manifold. Used to rev off the tacho over 8000 rpm! was a lot of fun lol