This is a disaster, not only is this a fine racing car but the very body is now rare and a true classic. In South Africa we only have two racing Hillman Imps, one more was prepared by myself and sent to a customer in the UK last year and thats just about it since 1972, thats forty one years (41) !
Note, I have access to just one more Imp shell, its a 1972/3 model, I even hold the original V5 registration documents, the car can be restored to any standard and end use.
Roy
Hello Roy,
Thanks for your concern, I was watching from the stands as my lil Imp was Anglaied!! Read all about it!
with regards to my Imp..... well when i first watched my friend Phil Webb who was reunited to a quick Imp doing a fine job at keeping some larger cubic centimetered equipment behind him in his first heat (after some twenty years or so absence from racing) my emotions were filled with happiness for him and with a tinge of pride as to how the car was performing and how pretty it looked. My happiness/pride turned to sad disappointment as the left rear let go and Phil was beached in the kitty litter in turn four. My happiness/pride, then disappointment soon turned to shock when a few laps later a flying Ford angle grinder flew straight off the track and in a split second wrote off my pride and joy! I manfully held back tears but inside i cried.
And yes I am ok but of course very sad!
Incidentally, who sent you the info?
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Terence Tracey
Note, I have access to just one more Imp shell, its a 1972/3 model, I even hold the original V5 registration documents, the car can be restored to any standard and end use.
Roy
Hello Roy,
later my happiness/pride turned disappointment turned shock later turned to anger! How could this accident have happened if all drivers were respecting the rules of a waved yellow? aren't they supposed to 'slow down and be prepared to stop'? What would have happened if the marshals had been in the throes of extricating the stricken Imp when the Anglia ploughed into them? serious injury would have been the least one could expect! Perhaps the reason the marshals decided not to remove the Imp from the firing line was a decision bathed in self preservation for which i blame them not one iota.
A sad day for Impers, the place was Zwartzkop,South Africa and on Saturday the 2nd of February 2013, pictures and words supplied by the cars owner Terence Tracey.
There was however some good sides to the incident; the front lights are still in perfect working order and Phil was able to crack a few hop extract frosties well before sundown and enjoy a first class day's racing with family and pals. incidentally, on March 17th i am driving another Imp to London in a few weeks and one of the charities that i am raising funds for is the Johannesburg Society for the Blind..... do you think the driver of the Anglia who obviously didn't see the furiously waved yellows would be upset if i arranged honorary membership of the JSFTB? Or maybe just present him with a nice white cane!
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