Andy Dawson

• Used to work at Chrysler's Competitions Department
   
• Has rallied Imps
   
• Knows much about tuning and making Imps handle really well
   
• Once headed Motor magazine's acceleration league table (up to 1000cc) with his rallying Imp DFL 492C.
   
• He wrote many a story for the now defunct Cars and Car Conversions magazine on Imp tuning.
   
• Runs a motorsport workshop (1977: Dawson Auto Developments).
  
  D.A.D. and Chrysler Competitions Parts List (March 1977)
   
• He also is a consultant for several car manufacturers.

Literature

Andy Dawson, CCC, 1976

Greenslade, R.
All sideways in Dawson's Zenith Imp / Rex Greenslade; Gordon Bruce. - Motor 1972, 1 April
DFL 492C
Reprinted in Transport Source Book 081. - p.97-98

Richardson, C.
Imp Revival ? / Clive Richardson; photos: Jasper Spencer Smith. - Cars & Car Conversions 1972, May. - p.100-101
Driving Andy Dawson's rally Imp DFL492C - Zenith/Solex carburettion.

Dawson, A.
Handling : General principles / by Andy Dawson. - Cars & Car Conversions 1975, March (?). - p.48-51

Dawson, A.
Handling. 2. More theory and The Imp / by Andy Dawson. - Cars & Car Conversions 1975, April. - p.48-

Dawson, A.
Dawson's Dodges / by Andy Dawson. - Cars & Car Conversions 1976, May. - p.67-69,71
How the experts prepare competition Imps, by the man who probably knows more about it than anyone else. This month Andy Dawson looks at the basics of screwing together 875cc and 998cc engines.

Dawson, A.
Dawson's Dodges, Part 2/ by Andy Dawson. - Cars & Car Conversions 1976, June. - p.39-41,43
A series on how the experts prepare competition Imps, by Andy Dawson, the man who probably knows more about it than anyone else. This month he ventures into engines of over 998cc's.

Dawson, A.
Dawson's Dodges, Part 3 / Andy Dawson. - Cars & Car Conversions 1976, July. - p.63-65,67
Part 3 in Andy Dawson's series on how the experts prepare competition Imps. In this concluding episode, the master deals with drive shafts, bodyshells and suspension

Davies, P.
Balance braking / by Paul Davies (with considerable help from Andy Dawson). - Cars & Car Conversions 1977, July. - p.62-63
...better stopping for the CCC Imp - and almost any car that needs adjustable dual circuit hydraulics.

Simister, J.
Little devils / John Simister; photography: Matt Howell. - Practical Classics 2004, spring. - p. 56-62
gathering six Imps and two Imp gurus: Dennis Allt and Andy Dawson.
Modified IMPS - Little Devils - Hold the head gasket! Wind down the water pump! Keep away from the kingpins! And meet a sextet of imps that shows what imps can really do once the power potential is unleashed in that little aluminium engine.