Hillclimbs

In my guestbook I found [June 2007] a link to a 1:46 min. movie that I enjoyed.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/98e1e0d7-14a3-4bd1-9c05-98420102bbbd.htm
I hope it will remain there for a while. The text with it:

GWJ in his IMP at Doune Sept 2006. 1040cc roadgoing Imp, 2 times British Hill Climb Champion, no Predator, but a big grin. www.2T4t.co.uk

Prescott Hillclimb

A difficult hill in Gloucestershire. Since 1978 it has a spare light and timing channel 64 ft after the startline (very slightly uphill). Anything covering 64 ft in 2 sec.s is equaling the force of gravity (1G).

Prescott Hillclimb timings over the first 64 ft. (September 1981)

class	driver	car	engine	time	note
Special Saloons up to 1300cc	John Meredith	Maguire Imp	Hartwell 1200 Imp	1.89	Only man to break 2 sec.s in his class
Special Saloons over 1300cc	Wilfred Powell	Mini Cooper 'S'	1400 BL	2.54	fastest mini
GT and Mod. Sports over 1300cc	Roland Jones	Porsche Carrera	3000cc	1.95	barely holding off two other Porsches at 1.96
Racing Cars over 1600cc	Ted Williams	Pilbeam MP40	2500 Hart	1.76	fastest ever recorded

Imp Hillclimbers

Hartwell Imp engines:

• Charles Barter
  1976, 1977 1978 BARC / Euroblast Hill Climb champion
  Haynes Leaders 1978
  Holder of UK hill records for 1000cc saloon and 1300 modsport classes
• John Meredith
  Haynes Leaders Hill Climb champion 1979 (Imp engined Mini)
• Nigel Bigwood
  1979 A.S.W.M.C. Hill Climb / Sprint Speed champion

• Spadge Hopkins used to use his G15 for hillclimbs, but he's switching to racing it.

• Philip Lomas

• Tony Tewson

• Kevin Cole racing his 1040cc Hillman Imp in the annual Longleat House hill climb in Wiltshire. 2007? [Imp at YouTube; comments] movieclip © www.brayspeed.co.uk

The Hillclimb & Sprint Association have a magazine: "Sportscene". Steve Wilkinson is a regular reporter.

Hillclimbing at Fintry House, Aberdeenshire, during a round of the Scottish Hillclimb Championships: Aonghus Drummond his Imp; and those of Mike Duncan and Jim Westwater.

During 1966/68 John Nichols used a Hillman Imp, fitted with a Jack Knight close ratio gearbox to compete in sprints and hill climbs. He attended a racing drivers school at Brands Hatch and at Silverstone where he drove aLotus 51 Formula Ford 1600. He was at Silverstone school the day that Jim Clarke died at Hockenhiem. There was a silence throughout the pit/paddock area.
Having tasted a single seater he was determined to change from the Imp.

Unsorted

The Bristol MC promote a sprint at Castle Combe, two at RAF Colerne (quite near Combe) and a weekend of hillclimbs at Wiscombe Park in Devon. Colerne is a wonderful venue...
Mark Chater attends this club's competition in his Imp Davrian and would welcome another Imp nut in the club.

See the YouTube footage at Prescott Hill: p_ejzr5ERPg