V reg Chrysler Sunbeam Sheffield spottage!

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 

Saw it twice today! Latterly followed it along Queens Road. It's a 1.3 rather than the ultra rare 930 Gimp engined miser model.

[Spiny Norman]

Wow! Can't remember the last time I saw one of these on the road, they've all but disappeared.

Looks like a real giffer-mobile judging by the two occupants, good on them for sticking with the car they probably bought brand new 24 years ago rather than swapping it for some hateful Korean box.

[In The Pit]

Great love those, my mum had a red one on a W reg a 1.6 GL (it still is her favorite car that shes owned).

[ProgRocker]

Excellent spot.

 

Talking of Sheffield motorists and Rootes cars, I wonder if Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker still has his 1970s Hillman Imp? He was still driving it even after the success of the 'Different Class' album.

[Angrydicky]

Great spot!

 

Looks like a real giffer-mobile judging by the two occupants, good on them for sticking with the car they probably bought brand new 24 years ago rather than swapping it for some hateful Korean box.

 

I agree, but if they bought it new, wouldn't it have been 32/33 years ago?

[HillmanImp]

Excellent spot.

 

Talking of Sheffield motorists and Rootes cars, I wonder if Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker still has his 1970s Hillman Imp? He was still driving it even after the success of the 'Different Class' album.

 

The enquiry is complete.

The vehicle details for LMX 826P are:

Date of Liability 01 02 1998

Date of First Registration 14 01 1976

Year of Manufacture 1976

Cylinder Capacity (cc) 875cc

CO2 Emissions Not Available

Fuel Type PETROL

Export Marker N

Vehicle Status Unlicensed

Vehicle Colour YELLOW

Vehicle Type Approval Not Available

[wuvvum]

That is superb. It's been years since I've seen a boggo Sunbeam on the road. I've only ever had one, and that was a 928cc job - was in surprisingly good nick having only done 23,000 miles from new, but painfully slow (77 flat out, and outgunned by a DI Transit on acceleration). Bought for a tenner from the local auction - those were the days.

[Spiny Norman]

I agree, but if they bought it new, wouldn't it have been 32/33 years ago?

 

That'll teach me to talk on the phone while trying to figure out how old a 79 on a V car is!

[Wilko220]

This is what happened to Cocker's Imp:

 

http://m.mtv.com/news/article.rbml?id=1 ... ml&cid=300

 

The cock.

[Albert Ross]

I also saw a Sunbeam on Eccleshall Road on Saturday. Black one, DAC 40Y I think..... Not quite the boggo spec one though, this was the Lotus. One of the last ones built.

[ProgRocker]

Thanks Wilco 220 and Hillman Imp. What a shame.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

This is what happened to Cocker's Imp:

 

http://m.mtv.com/news/article.rbml?id=1 ... ml&cid=300

 

The cock.

 

What an absolute wanker.