Gold Stilettos.

why is it so difficutl to resist thinking about moding them?

i like the one that was in retro cars a few months back, with, i think it was a zetec engine was very nice!

I wouldent normally go for gold on any car but it sort of suits the Stiletto.

This ones about 25 miles from me aswell. Shame I havent got that sort of cash lying around.

Nice.

She'd make a fab project. Not a lot of work would really transform her! With my existing two projects, though, no time, no money...

Can't wait to get my Chamois back from the paint guy!

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Now I own a gold Imp so I know how naff they look but that's pretty nice! ;D ;D Crying out for some interior mods all the same, that interior might look nice but those seats don't support you when you're flying along in corners as you tend to do in an Imp, believe me!

I'm still skint though!

I saw that Retro Cars article, wasn't a 1400cc Rover K Series that was in that one?

i agree there amazon...

could well of then the rover engine- think it was

You can see why those things are true right enough, the coupe's thin C pillars and curved rear window mean that there's more window compared to the saloon's thick C pillars which I suppose give less visibility, although I've got no complaints with their visibility, but then again the thicker pillars also add a bit of strength, but all Imps are pretty strong really, probably because they're all double skinned in construction and have quite boxy construction too.

I wonder what the reserve is. I want it more everytime I look at it.

If it dosent hit reserve I will look out for it in the future. Maybe by then I may have the money together. Wishfull thinking.

Yep, they're all rear engined, well in the case of Renaults and Simcas there were rear engined models, I know what you mean though, stuff like the Renault 8 and Simca 1000 was rear engined, and looked a bit like the Imp oddly enough.

Personally out of that lot I'd have an Imp, a Tatra, a Skoda, or possibly a rear engined VW.

Here's another rear engined car that's eerily like an Imp, the Ukranian built ZAZ 966.


These were made from 1967-1994, and had an air cooled V4 in the back, as did the earlier ZAZ, and had a few odd features, like a separate petrol driven heater not unlike a lorry nightheater system that runs independant of the engine and in the ZAZ's case has it's own fuel tank. Not unlike the Imp, these things were laughed at a bit in their homeland for being unreliable, but being air cooled were capable of running in the worst of conditions. I'm pretty sure these things were the result of a bit of industrial spying, which happened on both sides of the cold war, I mean look at that picture, it's so much like an Imp, and there's even an Imp hanging about in the background of the rear view shot! Plus the cooling system of the air cooled engine looks oddly like a VW/Porsche set up, and as a side note the air cooled four even sounds like a Beetle. Odd little car, but I've never seen one in the flesh. Another thing it has that the Imp doesn't is those handy little engine bay vents in the wings, the Imp could have done with those to keep the engine cool, with them maybe the engine would be less prone to overheat when it's abused and or/worked too hard?