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Title: IMP-H
Catalog #: 08_01318
Additional Information: Interplanetary Monitoring Platform
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
I'm pretty happy with the overall proportions now, so i've started adding facial details and some spikes.
Its difficult to add details that never existed, trying to keep things faithful without ever really knowing how it looked.
1975 Sunbeam Sport Imp Manufacturer
Rootes Group
Also called, Hillman GT (Australia)
Hillman Husky, Commer Imp Van
Singer Chamois, Sunbeam Imp
Sunbeam Sport, Sunbeam Chamois
Sunbeam Stiletto, Sunbeam Californian
Production 1963-1976, 440,032 made
Assembly Linwood, Scotland and Australia
Petone, New Zealand
Body styles, 2-door coupe
2-door saloon, 3-door estate (Husky)
and 3-door panel van
Engine
875 cc Straight-4 Overhead camshaft
Transmission
4-speed manual all-synchromesh.
Wheelbase 2,082 mm (82.0 in)
Length3,581 mm (141.0 in)
Width1,524 mm (60.0 in)
Height 1,385 mm (54.5 in) Saloon
1,330 mm (52.4 in) Coupe
1,475 mm (58.1 in) Hillman Husky/Commer Imp
Kerb weight 725 kg (1,598 lb)
When launched in 1965, the Hillman Super Imp sold for £565. The rear engined saloon was the Rootes group answer to the Mini. This perfect example was at the Stone 4 Wheel festival, which we report from in the latest issue of Classic and Competition car magazine, Free to read at www.classicandcompetitioncar.com
Changed the floor of the.... office building, I shall call it. I think the mosaic turned out quite well.
My (fairly) trusty Hillman Imp which along with my close friend's more vintage Rootes group products provided transport to here, there and everywhere in the quest for the interesting Omnibus. This was It, shortly after a re-build and re-spray. What didn't know when I took this pic on an East Anglian Expedition was that it was in the last couple of weeks of it's existance. Whilst overtaking a tractor the following week, said tractor turned right and 'wrote it off'!
Still sorting out the basics of the body shape, getting proportions right before adding too much detail.
Aiming for an authentic recreation of the original Imp, but with a more terrifying level of detail.
Skin will be very leathery and generally filthy.
SBT67N aHillman Imp ( the top of the range model ) for sale at Coventry Motorfest. Photo taken 01/06/19
(Photographed at the Argyll Factory, Alexandria www.flickr.com/photos/ermintrude73/12030480325/)
In 1956 there was an oil crisis as French and British troops tried to take possessions of the Suez Canal to stop Egyptian nationalisation. The vulnerability of Europe’s oil supplies became apparent as petrol prices soared. Car manufacturers rushed to produce cheap small cars.
Rootes planned such a model – originally called the Slug. The design evolved with a rear wheel drive from an engine in the boot. For the car to handle properly, a light-weight engine was developed.
In 1959, as BMC announced the Mini, Rootes decided to go into production with the Imp at their new Linwood plant, served by the body making plant at Pressed Steel who were already in the area making bodies for Rover and Volvo.
It had taken little more than two years to build the factory and manufacture the first car. But this rush to put the car on the road had left insufficient time for testing and, although the press reports at the launch were very complimentary, these early cars soon gained a reputation for unreliability.
Singer and Sunbeam versions of the Imp were made together with a Commer van.
Make/Model Hillman Imp
Engine 875cc all aluminium
Top speed 85mph
Cost new £672
The Imp was assembled at a purpose-built plant at Linwood, near Paisley, in the West of Scotland. It was built by the Rootes Group between 1963 and 1976 to compete with BMC's Mini.
Title: IMP-1
Catalog #: 08_01352
Additional Information: Interplanetary Explorer Delta M-6
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive