Watching a repeat of the Hillman Imp episode, as usual a great show to watch, it was beautiful at the finish, as all the cars are, I just have a soft spot for the Imp, rock on the Car SOS team

I’ve been dying for Car SOS to do a Hillman Imp for years. Fantastic. The full episode was on earlier in the evening. My Dad had imps when I was a kid in the sixties then I owned one myself for a bit. Love these cars. Wish they had been more successful. As Fuzz says - imagine what a modern version of the car could have been like? 😁

@carlbirtles4518

9 ай бұрын

With a fuel injected engine or batteries and an electric motor?

I used to own a 1970 Sunbeam Stiletto. It was signal red with a black vinyl roof and black interior. It had twin headlamps and the standard twin-carb Imp sport engine.

coventry climex engine, was ahead of its time.

What a lovely little car. Nice resto.

The best car ever invented to date.

I must admit that I didn't know anything about car sos ... untill season 6 ...😕 before then I knew nothing about it.... I just turned on the tv one day and found this....I watched it n thought what a brilliant show this is! 😉👍

Dang!! If mine looked this good, ran like this, I might have kept it! Still, it was a fun thing to drive.

Wouldn't mind seeing the engine strip down part

@1258-Eckhart

4 жыл бұрын

There's bits of it on the Car SOS channel.

My first car! I loved it but boy it gave no end of trouble. That daft pneumatic throttle, oil leaking and overheating. Overheating was because that stupid oil leak blocked the radiator mixed with road muck.

This looks like a funny engine

@carlbirtles4518

9 ай бұрын

Fuzz replaced the carburettors with a fuel injector to make the Imp more reliable and give the Imp more horsepower.

I love tim n fuzz on car 🚗 sos!!! I really do!! It's a absolute fantastic series!! N I hope it keeps carrying on for many years to come. 😉👍

I had one and never had any trouble with it. I followed the advice of a mechanic about the possibility of a warped head due to overheating and to always have the heater full on with the windows open in the summer.

Started my apprentiship in 1969 at a Rooted dealers in cippenham NORMANS OF SLOUGH.....And the imps troubles were REAR CRANK SEALS (crows feet)..Water Pumps , Head Gaskets.. Wheel Bearings....Transaxle noise...King pins....always changing clutches ....etc.. they wernt the most reliable car ....wish I had a pound for every one I P D I ed ❤

Is it just me or did anyone else notice this..... At the start of season 7 Tim and Fuzz did a two show live show ....in the heritage motor centre....it was exactly like TOP GEAR!! 😀 with a audience.

@mattayres371

3 жыл бұрын

@Jayceon Gatlin I've just reported chance ray.... he's a computer bott.....not a real person. Aka advertising freak! 🙄

Usually engine and gearbox were installed together as a complete unit

Not to sure about a disc brake conversion on an imp the brakes where OK as they where!! Anybody whose stuffed an imp into a tight corner and braked on the way in will know you don't need anymore braking force less would be good because the resultant front end plough is pretty exciting to say the least!!!

I want um to do a Lamborghini Countach!! 😎💪

@carlbirtles4518

9 ай бұрын

Maybe put a camera on the back so reversing can be easier.

Saludos desde Venezuela. Una pregunta donde están los seriales de identificación del chasis y carrocería. Gracias

Nice video. Just want to find out where can i get a disc brake kit for a Hillman Imp

@janeweedon6335

4 жыл бұрын

Join the Imp Club...

I would REALLY appreciate some contact details for info on the Disc and fuel injection systems. ..pretty please xxx

@janeweedon6335

3 жыл бұрын

Colin Valentine disc brakes - Canems fuel injection.

It's better than top gear! N grand tour! 🤣😀

Well there's only one thing left for me to say......"you've just been car sos'ed" ...... "Start ya engine..... get outta here!!" 👉😆😆

Well u did do the brakes but do 2 the engine and y nt fix eng and box together

Must say that the bedford ha ice cream van looks like a car that coco the 🤡 clown would drive in the 70s. 😆😆🤣on a serious note......I much prefer Tim Shaw's modern pump ice cream...... compared to fuzz scoop ice cream. 😀

@carlbirtles4518

9 ай бұрын

Easier to lick, I suppose?

Why the name Imp by the way? 🙂

@byteme9718

4 жыл бұрын

Child of the devil.

@crumplezone1

3 жыл бұрын

Imp means `small and nippy `

These must have been the most unreliable cars ever. Because they were cheap and quite fast for the time, I had two sunbeam stilettos. Rear engined with poor cooling, overheating, water pump failure and warped cylinder heads along with the carburettors forever going out of balance. As well as that the carburetor was directly above the hot exhaust with only a thin metal plate between but didn't stop heat from affecting fuel control. The stiletto had the imp gearbox and it was too delicate for the more powerful stiletto engine. I broke 3 but there were hundreds of them in the scrap yard for cheap replacements. As well as that rubber drive doughnuts that perished and king pins in the steering that generally never received the correct grease lubrication. Bad design, built by ex scottish ship builders with no car manufacturing experience because Rootes were almost ordered by the Gov. to build the factory at Linwood, in the worst strike era, when the UK was the sick man of Europe - what could possibly go wrong.

@BakerWild

Жыл бұрын

Ex-scottish ship builders? Lol you know who designed it? You know nothing 😂

@richardstaz721

3 ай бұрын

I too had a Sunbeam Stilletto, and a Ginetta G15 powered by an Imp Sports engine , and they were pretty reliable.

I can’t take anyone seriously who wears a stupid hat.