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Spotted outside a service station today, this Sunbeam Imp Sport.
This particular car was very active on the car show and rally scene. I have seen photos of a number of it at festivals and meets.
JAC 366N registered between August '74 - July '75.
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Car: Commer Imp.
Year of manufacture: 1965.
Date of first registration in the UK: 6th December 1965.
Place of registration: Cardiff.
Date of last MOT: 7th June 2016.
Mileage at last MOT: 68,099.
Date of last V5 issued: 31st March 2017.
Date taken: 14th September 2021.
Album: Carspotting 2021
Car: Hillman Imp.
Years of manufacture: 1963 to 1976.
Date taken: 21st January 2019.
Album: Abandoned and Neglected Cars
I took this photograph in part of the parking area set aside for various owners clubs at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Boulogne and Hawthorn Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 2006. Amongst several other Rileys, this is a 1935 Riley Imp built on the Riley Nine chassis and using its 4-cylinder inline 1,087cc engine. The Riley Imp was produced from 1933 to 1935 but production figure records were destroyed during WW2 and it is estimated that about 120-150 cars were produced in those three years.
The Imp class of light cargo freighters was produced by the Corellian Engineering Corporation. The base freighter design, like many CEC ships, was modular and came with many options. The 'Besther' model, named for the project lead, featured individualized cargo pods which could be customized to accommodate specific needs.
The Besther Imp XIV was made in the first production run and has faired decently in its 34 years of service. Many non-essential systems no longer function well or at all, and it's space-worthiness is in doubt, but it works well as a planetside-only cargo transport.
Name: "Besther" Imp XIV
Manufacturer: Corellian Engineering Corporation
Model #: IMP-1492013299
Length: 40 meters
Width: 12 meters
Height: 7 meters
Hyperdrive rating: Class 0.8*
Crew: 3 (Pilot, co-pilot, astromech droid*)
Cargo capacity: Variable, up to 750 metric tons
Escape pods: 2
Defense systems: Light shields*
Armament: Ballistic escape pods.
Sensors: Standard cargo class*
*System damaged or inoperable
The Lucasarts game "Star Wars 1313" was shaping up to be a brand new style of game for the Star Wars brand and a fantastic look at another side of the SW universe. Unfortunately, when Disney bought Lucasfilm they shuttered the Lucasarts game department. While not official, 1313 appears to have been effectively cancelled.
For SHIPtember I decided to pay tribute to what could have been. This ship features prominently in the trailer/demo video for the game, and appears to represent the opening act of the game.
While simple in shape, the detachable cargo pods were what first intrigued me enough to start this project. The ship is, to my best estimate, full minifigure scale. Though similar in looks, this ship would actually be dwarfed by the nearly four-times longer Tantive IV.
The full size of this model is 131.3 studs long, 42 studs wide, and 19 bricks tall. It took two weeks to create, start to finish.
The hiss and pounding of the dreaded machine. The soldiers of the trenches cower in fear at the sound.
The Imp!
With two powerful legs built for all terrains, a 6cm cannon on its left side and a smaller machine gun on the left.
Via Paolo D'Amico whose brother-in-law being Italian and just as car mad as Paolo himself is , remembered what was in Paolo's garage at home when he saw an Imp DHC flying past... He only had a mobile phone with camera at hand, hence the not brilliant quality. However, considering both cars were moving at the time this picture was taken, I can only say: full marks to our Italian friend for capturing this Bella macchina Inglese!