Master builders and Parts suppliers

George Hartwell
3 Oxford Road, Bournemouth
or that's where they used to be. These days they are no longer in business...
Hartwell Imps

Ian Carter
Engine specialist; tuning, all conversions, specialist in sizes over 1000 cc.
Unit 14; Westbury Close; Townsend Industrial Estate; Hooghton Regis; Dunstable; Bedfordshire.
Ian Carter died of a stroke, September 1998. He worked on his own - a vast amount of knowledge is gone with him. He was thinking of retiring in 1997, but there were so many people he didn't want to let down...

Past Parts, specialised components for the older vehicle For special prices to Club Members: when ordering, quote ref. IOC1.   Mail order service   (accepting: cheque, mastercard, visa, switch) 6 Chamberlayne Road, Moreton Hall Ind. Est. Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk IP32 7EY Tel.: 01284 - 750 729 Fax: 01284 - 756 240 E-mail: restore@pastparts.com   Brake pads / Shoes Wheel cylinders / Kits / Hoses Brake discs / drums Brake calipers / Kits Servos / Kits Clutch Kits & piece parts Clutch master & slave cylinder / kits Steering and Suspension parts   Shock absorbers Water pumps Wheel bearing kits Special distributor for AP Lockheed and Champion plugs We keep 15,000 different parts in stock for British and European cars, trucks and tractors (age ranging from 10-70 years)

Cottage Classics Ltd
01728 724315
Imp based vehicle spare parts bulletin in addition to our usual listings
We take credit cards, cheques, cash and swaps!

Imparts
Cheltenham

V.W. Derrington Ltd.
They shut down business in the early '80s.

Still in business ?
Skip Brown Engineering tel.no. used to be 027074 - 218

Tony Hatcher. Imp specialist. Tel. Bournemouth 01202 - 87 49 57
Engine expert: modified cylinder heads 875 998 1040 units, any spec. Fibreglass panels. Bib spoilers. Front radiator kits.
359 Ringwood Road, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9AE

A.V. Hatcher used to do "Hatcher & Clement, Motor Engineers" at Winton, Bournemouth. He has spent seven years with Team Hartwell in the tuning department before he set up his own business.

Suisse Auto: Imp tuning and restoration specialists
Race car preparation - Engine builds - Machining facilities - Many spcialist components
Cranks - Blocks - Manifolds - Springs - Glass fiber panels
Minilite replica wheels - Yokohame tyres - Spax adjustable shocks - Front mounted radiators - Weber or Dellorto carbs - throttle linkages & cables - disc brake conversions
Camshafts available in all popular profiles
John Lockwood, Rugby: 01788 - 83 22 89
BRSCC 1989 Historic Saloon Car champions with 6 lap records; champion of 1990 and 1991, too.
Mr. Lockwood used to be The Imp Club's Competition Secretary and he also used to store and despatch of the club's spares.

Demon Tweeks, specialised in performance and tuning equipment both for motorsport (professional or [serious] amateur) and road. They do world wide mail order.

Ian Sykes
Davrian racers
Salisbury. 01725 - 512 987
Hillrally (same Sykes ?)

Mike Hanna, ace Imp welder, (amongst other things...) Imp specialist. Very meticulous. Many Imp Club members have used him, and they rate him highly. He's not the cheapest, but the best never is.
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, tel.no +44 (0)1242 680011
(the 221709 no. is old)

UniPart

Piston suppliers
FW Thorntons of Shrewsbury will send pistons anywhere in the world.

Panels

Radford Panels [Hillman Imp repair panels], [January 1996]
They can make panels they don't have in stock. This usually takes about 6 weeks, but is sometimes done within a fortnight. Good quality.
R J Grimes (just south of London) stock panels, too.
And Alan Millington at Impetus has panels, just like Vince Frost at Merlin Motors.
All of the above come recommended by one or more users of The Imp List: Imps @ yahoogroups.com.

Smith and Deakin
tel.: 01905 - 458886
fax: 01905 - 458889.
75 Blackpole trading estate West, Worcester, WR3 8TJ

IMPtechnic Ltd - Jeff Day
Rear 6a Lowther Street
Coventry, CV2 4GJ
www.imptechnic.co.uk
+44 (0) 2476 - 256997
+44 (0) 7976413608

Mayson and Solomon
Carburettors; Air filters;
Stromberg repair kits; all the different needle/ spring sizes
Good service, very helpful, recommended by Graham Miller and Simon Trickett.
They advertise in Practical classics

Need for Speed
Parts for Hillman Imps: AVO shocks; Leda Suspension; K&N filters; Piper Camshafts; Ignition

Trim

• Woolies stock most trim suitable for imps.
  They advertise in Practical classics plus www.eyp.co.uk and they do a lot of the Classic shows
  Woolies trimming: Woolies I & C Woolstenholmes
  Ltd Blenheim Way, Market Deeping, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire PE6 8LD
  Tel: 01778 347347
• Vince Frost at Merlin Motors has lots of everything!!
  Tel. 01352 720280

Exhaust (comment from e-mail messages)

• Guaranteed Stainless
  (ok, but maybe not the best possible quality)
• Maniflow, Salisbury
  (better built and better value and lasting longer)
• Janspeed performance exhaust systems, Salisbury

Vinyl (Stiletto roofs)
Bernard Hirschman, at Unit 1, Fishergate York YO1 4AR. Tel: 01904 672055 Fax: 613696. First class. Does headlinings as well.
Aldridge Trim, an excellent trimmer's in Wolverhampton. They advertise their work on Jaguars, but will do Imps, too.
Motor Upholstery Supplies 14 Anne Rd, Wellingborough, Northhants. advertise in most mags, claiming to do vinyl roofs for almost any car. Some Imper was less than pleased with their work. They sent out a piece of vinyl which was the wrong pattern and nowhere near big enough for a Stiletto, and it had none of the stitch joints in place to give the shape. The second attempt was no better. They do not seem to know what a Stiletto is.

Tyres
175/70 12in tyres can be gotten in a number of makes at 'Atlas Tyres', located in Cathays which is in Cardiff.

Paintshops
L.E. Went in Raynes Park, very helpful chaps, they also have a Rootes colour swatch book

Mr. Shannon, one of the top engine builders in the sixties and seventies, in Scotland.

Africa

South Africa

Roy McBride
CKD Boats
Cape Town

• Imp experience since 1967
• supply: varient parts and engines for the Hillman Imp (probably the larger stock of parts and related cars in South Africa)
• rebuild: parts and engines
• classic restoration (if wanted to full concours standards)
• Imps for sale

Request: If you live in South Africa and if you are involved in Imps or derivatives, would you please make contact?
Roy McBride - The Imp Club overseas contact for South Africa
9 Westfort Road
Northshore
Hout Bay 7800
tel. (00 27) 21 790 3859
e-mail: roy@comlumber.com

Euro - Continent

Netherlands

T.P. Bouters, Tienhoven 33, 4697 GN St. Annaland (Tholen). Tel. 01665 - 2279. Hillman and Sunbeam parts.

Arnoud Malherbe - Hoefbladhof 27 - 3991 GE Houten. Postorders Website met onderdelen: www.rootesparts.com
Geen parts list, maar wel 14.000 verschillende Rootes parts op voorraad.
Op zaterdag is men, na een telefoontje, welkom tussen 11.00 en 17.00 voor chat, tips and coffee.

Oldtimer bv, postbus 95, 5590 AB Heese. Tel.: 04907-63303 (familie Hekkers)

A garage that has got nothing to do with Imps, apart from restoring mine is P. Kruis & partners (Grouw, Friesland). Mr. Kruis knows his job, and I won't hold it against him that he specializes in (classical) Mercs. Talking with him is always educational.

Norway

RIIS Glass, a company in Norway can deliver windscreens for Stilettos, either clear ones or green with blue on top.
Halvard Kristiansen

Australasia

Australia

Lynx
They're well known in the Rootes community here for their Hunter manifolds. They produced an inlet manifold for twin 40DCOE or Dellortos.

Paul Corey, Imp parts supplier in Sydney
+61 - (0)2 9871 7647

New Zealand

Brian Bradshaw Race Preparation. (Christchurch)
New Zealand Imp specialist Brian Bradshaw offers new, used and reconditioned Imp parts and builds Imp race engines. Darcy Maddock: "He built a comp. dizzie for my 930cc, special head and R20 cam. I have nothing but good to say about his work. All you need to do is give him your exact specs. and he will do the rest. Ask him for a price list as well. Good stuff like Kevlar bonnets and boots and lots of others right up to full comp. parts."
The Imp Werks site
They take visa or mastercard and appear willing to do global postorder. At the moment the English pound is quite strong...

Singapore

• From: Brian Chan
  Subject: addition to file on suppliers
  Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005

  Pls add www.davidworksgarage.com to your list. It's a unique garage in Singapore that caters mainly to classic cars including the only Singer Chamois left in the country!
  Run by David and Brian Chan. Parts and restoration services.
  
  Best Regards,
  Brian Chan
  David Works Garage
  3012 Bedok Industrial Park E
  #01-2018, 2026 & 2030
  Singapore 489978
  Off: 065 64451739
  Fax: 065 62417730

• Wah Tiong at Waterloo spare Parts Centre

The Imp Site
Imp Anatomy
Russ Maddock's file on suppliers
www.EYP.co.uk
Loot.com
FW Thorntons of Shrewsbury England