Actually, the Sunbeam version of the Imp was called the Stilletto in the UK,
if I remember correctly. It had twin Stromberg CD125s and the rear window had
a more gradual slope than the regular Imp, so that it looked like a fastback.
Is that what you had, or did Chrysler rebadge the regular Hillman Imp and call
it a Sunbeam when they exported it to the US?
The Imp and its derivatives had an 875 cc all-aluminum engine, with single
OHC. It was based on a Coventry Climax ffirepump engine, I believe, like many
of C-C's engines. It was a great motor - I could lift thw bare block in one
hand and swing it around my head. You could remove engine and gearbox as a
unit by removing the single engine mount from the rear apron/crossmember,
removing the two transmission mounts at the front, disconnecting the half
shafts from the gearbox, drop the engine/gearbox onto jackstands or whatever
was available, removing the rear crossmember and rolling the car forward,
leaving the engine behind on the jackstands (it was a rear-engine car). That
made it really easy to rebuild the engine for an impecunious college student
who could only afford basic hand tools.
Those were the days...
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: BearTranserv@aol.com
To: mmarr@notwires.com ; triumphs@autox.team.net
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [TR] TR3 video.
In a message dated 8/31/2007 9:26:34 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
mmarr@notwires.com writes:
I was that guy's age in 1971, but all I could
afford back then was an assortment of ancient Morris Minors, Ford Anglias
and, the jewel in the crown, a 1966 Hillman Imp. I loved THAT car...
Mike
Interesting. I got married in 1970 and my new wife and I left for my junior
year at North Texas State University in a 62 TR3 and a 63 Saab Station Wagon.
I sold the TR3 about a year later and bought a Fiat station wagon, then sold
that and bought a Sunbeam Imp, cool car. Wish I had the Imp and the TR back
now....
Robert B. Houston
Texan in New Mexico
63 TR4
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg
carburetors in his vintage Triumph, highly functional yet pleasingly formed,
perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced
hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and
adjusted as
described in chapter seven of the shop manual.
Dan McKay
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