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Imp club members one owner car

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This car has been owned by a club member some fifty one (51) years.

It is a very standard Hillman Imp Mk1, I rebuilt the engine for the owner some years back.

It was purchased new from Stanley Motors In Cape Town, the car has recently seen some restoration and is now in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Sport wheel trims must be quite rare out there?
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The Nun wrote:Sport wheel trims must be quite rare out there?
Yes, Dave the owner must have shipped them in when he imported all the new window rubbers?

They do look nice.
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Fantastic stuff Roy, there can't be too many to compare to that length of ownership!
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johnh875 wrote:Fantastic stuff Roy, there can't be too many to compare to that length of ownership!
Yes and I suspect this is a rust free car, Dave lives by the coast but stores the car far inland to ensure it stays rust free :D
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Dave Alderson-Smith is standing second from the left, back row and with the beard :D

The picture was supplied to me by a chap who has a Reliant Scimitar Saber and in the Durban, South Africa, he told me that he had met with a man who says he owned an Imp but also that he played the Bag Pipes, I knew then that he had met with Dave Alderson- Smith.

A short while later the local newspaper came out and there was Dave!
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