Showing posts with label Californian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Californian. Show all posts
Saturday, 25 March 2017
Hillman Imp Californian Coupe in South Africa
This was always a fairly rare car, with production spanning just three years and only 6100 or so made, this car was then exported to Mozambique, I assume as a Rootes Car Co export and not a personal export?
as the speedometer reads in kilometers and not in miles per hour.
Click on the image to enlarge it.
Seen here I am taking advantage of a break in our cold winter weather to air and dry the car out.
The car was sold by me about four and a half years back, it has spent most of that time parked outside near Cape Town, the paint has taken a hammering and the nice silver wide rim wheels were painted as we can see but otherwise the car has survived, sort of.
The engine is the cars original and numbers match, from Richard at the Imp Club in the UK I am told the car came off the Rootes Car Co production line 3rd of February 1967, the Californian was announced in 1966 but only sold from 1967 and this car was one of the first.
Nice to have such a restoration project on my hands again!
Roy
as the speedometer reads in kilometers and not in miles per hour.
Click on the image to enlarge it.
Seen here I am taking advantage of a break in our cold winter weather to air and dry the car out.
The car was sold by me about four and a half years back, it has spent most of that time parked outside near Cape Town, the paint has taken a hammering and the nice silver wide rim wheels were painted as we can see but otherwise the car has survived, sort of.
The engine is the cars original and numbers match, from Richard at the Imp Club in the UK I am told the car came off the Rootes Car Co production line 3rd of February 1967, the Californian was announced in 1966 but only sold from 1967 and this car was one of the first.
Nice to have such a restoration project on my hands again!
Roy
Friday, 17 March 2017
Hillman Imp Californian coupe rear side window rubbers
The car is a rare 1967 Imp Californian.
The rear side window rubbers arrived from our suppliers today and are perfect fit.
This is the retro type and will not accept the original Rootes Car Co, painted metal insert which covered most of the rubber.
The supplier tells me these are the last pair he had and has no plans to make anymore.
They should last another fifty years I guess?
There is no glass fitted at this stage as we need the re trimming job finishing inside the car first.
Roy
The rear side window rubbers arrived from our suppliers today and are perfect fit.
This is the retro type and will not accept the original Rootes Car Co, painted metal insert which covered most of the rubber.
The supplier tells me these are the last pair he had and has no plans to make anymore.
They should last another fifty years I guess?
There is no glass fitted at this stage as we need the re trimming job finishing inside the car first.
Roy
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