From: Graham Miller
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:52:05 -0000
Subject: [imps] The Car's the Star

I saw this programme last night (for non-UK readers it's a 20 minute bio of the Imp), thought it spent too much time criticising the MK1's but maybe they felt they had to explain why such a well engineered car failed so spectacularly. However, having watched it I have two questions...

Did they really raise the front suspension for the Construction and Use regs on the indicators and side lights, and how easy is it to restore to design spec (Obviously moving the lights ;-)?

Did the GPO really turn down Husky van's as too fast?

Graham

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 05:24:03 -0700
From: Dave Edge
Subject: [imps] Re: The Car's the Star

From the first time that I dropped my front suspension and noticed that the wishbones came to horizontal, I have been convinced that the suspension was raised as a last minute thing, either to defeat oversteer by making the front end give way first or something daft like the lights which afflicts all rubber bumpered MGBs.

And yes, I have heard that the GPO turned them down for this reason.

Dave