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| Fergus OMore:
This, Peter, was on a 1968 Reliant Rebel and I doubt that photography was invited then. Norm And I'm keeping quiet about 'last years model' as well. Well, that is how my wife describes her. :lol: |
| Raggle:
I like this project! You could set the tappets on your own without the two assistants needed in the original car. In a past life my now deceased one-armed mate and me had a workshop mostly dedicated to Hillman Imps and their variants. I had (was almost given) a Bond 875 which was a 3-wheel four-seater mostly of aluminium with a rear mounted Imp engine. You could do wheelies in that if you were brave. One day a chap asked us to replace the cylinder head on his Reliant (Plastic Pig) 850 - if only we'd realised it was easier as an engine out job. A year or two later and he had someone do some chassis welding on it and it caught fire after the welder had gone home. The owner watched as the whole car disappeared in 7 minutes. Interesting history though, Reliants ... but I'll shut up now ... unless anyone WANTS to know? Ray |
| Fergus OMore:
My wife and I have just returned from near Newark on the A1 and noted a gold coloured J Reg Hillman Imp in the Travelodge car. We passed it going North just short of Newcastle- full of two other old bats :hammer: and luggage galore. Hillman Imps- digressing, he says- were buggered up by Prince Philip opening the Scottish plant- near Paisley? Come to think of it, the Hillman Imp was the motive power for the Clan Crusader made by David Hassauer at Washington, Co Durham. Three hands wasn't the A Series SV but the Morris 8 which I passed my test on. One of those really nice cars with a blind which pulled down to avoid being dazzled by 6v Lucas lights :bugeye: and the laugh was on them if you chalked 'Don't laugh , your daughter may be inside' :drool: Having got on to such things, anyone recall the use which the rope grap handles got used for on the little Austin 7? No pictures- who would dare? Perhaps a word with your parents might reveal something. Cheers-- and Thanks N |
| Raggle:
If that use to which you refer was like the leather ones in 2-door Morris Minors, but absent in the 4-door, the answer was to use the wind up windows in the 4-door Ray |
| hopefuldave:
The "stirrups," in the Austin 7, would they be? That reminds me of the advertising campaign - "You can do it in an MG" - not unless you're a bloody contortionist and so's she, mate! A Zephyr with column gearchange, however... Back to the Imp, the little Coventry-Climax (ooer Mrs!) its motor was derived from was a cracker :) Dave H. (the other one) |
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