last modified: 23-01-2009

Pictured here is my Sunbeam Alpine made in 1964 in Coventry England
Pictured here on our wedding day.
It's a GT as you can tell by the hardtop and walnut dash it also has an
electric engaged overdrive unit on it's third and fourth gear. Read more about it here:

feature of the month
Restoration of this car took about 12 years (not continuously, as I got more
babies which need attention as you can see below.

This is the car which I use daily a Sunbeam Chamois,
in Britain called Singer Chamois
It is made in 1966 in Linwood, Scotland.
It's a lovely designed car as it is small, easy to handle,
quick and light to steer and has a great road holding why ?:
It has an alloy 4 cyl. watercooled engine (in the back) of only 875 CC
and 42HP and revs up to 8000 rpm without problems.
It has all round independent suspension with coil springs,
a transaxle also of alloy and all synchro gears,
It's great to use in the city where you need a small turning circle
and great on motorways where it is capable of 140km/h
at 18 km/litre of leadfree 98-octane fuel.
The bodywork has a third door an a reclinable back seat,
which is very handy for shopping and transporting long stuff.
Has walnut dash door and rear cappings
Safety has been enhanced by three point belts, headrests which slide
over the seat and hazard warning lights etc.

Here we are together with our Sunbeam Californian and Stiletto.
The Stiletto has been in my posession for over 27 years now and was welded
and reprayed in 2001.
The Californian was restored during the winter of 1999/2000.
The Stiletto and the maroon Chamois are in daily use summer and winter.
The Californian went to a friend of mine in Arnhem, the claret metallic Chamois
which I found and restored 2003 went to Luxemburg.
Our other cars are an electric blue Stiletto a golden sand metallic Imp
which I have done a lot of welding on (floor sills and wheelarches)
Last but not least we have a 1967 Sunbeam Californian (yes another one) also
Polar white, but this one is an early version with the small dashboard, this
still needs some work done on the interior like a new sealing and carpets.
I hope to finish that one this year and get it through APK (MOT).

back in 2001 we organised an Imp meeting in Groesbeek for the TV program "Zo Goed ALs Nieuw"

Dutch Imp Register:(under construction)
Go to Imp Dutch Imp Register

Imp articles in dutch and german magazines:(under construction)
Go to Imp Articles

For more Imp related pictures:
Go to The Imp Gallery

The Tech Page (For technical queries hints and tips):
Go to The Imp Tech page

The Meeting Page (For Imp/Alpine owner meetings):
Go to The Meetings page

For pictures of my Sunbeam Alpine GT IV :
Go to my Alpine pictures

For some miscellaneous Hillman/Sunbeam/Singer pictures :
Go to my misc. pictures

The Imps For Sale Page (For Imps for sale in the Netherlands):
Go to The Imps for sale page

Even lachen: (carjokes now in dutch, english and german)
Go to the joke page

It might be that my startpage isn't working anymore, no worries! :-) below here are all the links anyway:
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