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5 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Yes the Stiletto was made as Rootes/Chrysler attempted get a few more sales out of the Imp design and to part fill the gap left by the discontinuing of the Sunbeam Alpine sports. Presumably to keep dealers with something to sell.

Made 1967-72. About 9000 made. And introduced a long-time after the original Imp appeared in '63. 

So at about 1800 cars per year can hardly have been worth it. It shared the Hillman Imp Californian shell - which was an Imp without the rear hatch and with less headroom in the rear - so not a great move really.

By the the late 60's all this Rootes badge engineering was getting pretty desperate - and sales were dismal. By comparison BLMC made 278,000 Minis in 1970.

But nice cars but dogged by their reliability and image problems. Such a pity as they were classy in the Rootes way and had pretty good performance. But really too little too late.

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My first car was a Stiletto , bought for £60 in 1980

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22 minutes ago, Rusty Pelican said:

My first car was a Stiletto , bought for £60 in 1980

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That picture just catches the whole era for me :-)

(Mine was a Vitesse Mk 1 (2 litre mind). My hair was shorter but the clothes match. I never did go for the danglies on the mirror there tho' )

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8 hours ago, uk_senator said:

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I worked in Edmonton Fore Street,  just round the corner from here in the early 1980s; I drove a Ford Escort as the time...... but that's not it!

As an aside, one day a member of Autoshite is going to spot their own (or, more likely, their parents'!) car in one of these pictures! 

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7 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

I worked in Edmonton Fore Street,  just round the corner from here in the early 1980s; I drove a Ford Escort as the time...... but that's not it!

As an aside, one day a member of Autoshite is going to spot their own (or, more likely, their parents'!) car in one of these pictures! 

So did I, at Halfords (when I was still at school!), I later worked at Ripspeed further down! (I`ve got more of The Angel Edmonton pre-underpass too, & weirdly there was a second of video footage there on one of the old Top Of The Pops 80`s programs a few weeks back!)

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3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

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This thread's beginning to spook me.... Not content with showing a picture close to my former place of work in Edmonton, earlier, this is a picture of Gipsy Lane, Grays, which I recognise as being tantalisingly close to the industrial estate in Grays, where a branch of the trailer rental company T.I.P. were based, for whom I briefly worked in the late 1980s. 

Has someone access to my private life?

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