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I'm jsut updating the calendar code at the moment to make it quicker and easier for iRocco to do the calendar stuff.

Once its finished we'll put as many dates as we can in for all sorts of retro shinnanigans.

I'm planning on adding a thing saying weather RR people will be there

For the time being,.. try Retro Cars mag and the other classic magazines.

Another new member! And by the look of it a Hillman Imp fan! Hooray! ;D Do you have any Imps, out of curiosity? As it is I'm the only Imp owner on Retro Rides.( )

Just as cool! What's it like? You know, specs etc, and if you have any pictures then we'd be happy to see them. As I said, I'm the local Imp obsessive, I'm restoring a 1975 Hillman Super Imp rally car that rallied/ raced in the 70s and 80s, and just now am kind of in the middle of re-shelling it, using my other Imp, and daily driver, a 1974 Super Imp. There's a picture of the rally car to the left of this post, that's before I decided to give up on the shell repairs, which were going nowhere as the shell was really quite damaged, and decided to reshell it instead. Anyway welcome aboard.

Yep. Have been for a few years now. I doubt I've seen you around, I'm a Glasgow area member, actually I live quite near the Linwood factory where the Imp was made. Haven't been to many shows lately mind you, the rally car still won't be ready yet and the 74, even before it got earmarked for a donor shell, was hopelessly down on power, even with the engine juiced up to around Sunbeam Stiletto spec, and a bit tempermental, so I can't really go too far in either of them just now. Soon though, so I might see you around at a show next year, when both our cars are ready. Look out for a bright red rally Imp, with a white roof, custom made alloy plated interior, and tacky white Weller eight spoke wheels! ;D

An easy job you might try to bring up performance is to fit an electric fan in place of the mechanical ones Imp cooling systems. I take it your Nymph uses a similar cooling system to the standard Imp one? They reckon you can get at least 5 extra horses out of that, and as you say, in such a light car, even a small number of horses makes a huge amount of difference.

It is a general classic car show at Knebworth this weekend. Sunday and Monday I think. I'm going Monday.

Alot of guys in the Imp club don't seem to like the idea of an electric fan. Something about losing power through the electrics to run it so no real power gains. don't know how true this is.

The eletric fan on Imps issue has been discussed alot on the Imp clubs forum. There other problems aswell. Imp fans need to run all the time and an electric fan doing this will soon burn out its bearings. Thats what I'm told anyway.

I'm no expert either mate. So it could work.

I really need to get the Nymph finished but with the weather not being great this year and the winter now coming ive lost my drive to get it finished. (it really is a fine weather car)