A long long time ago I got a letter from the lady who originally owned this car in which she said ‘it had Sparrowhall on the doors’. Sparrowhall was the name of her home (which was pretty big I reckon, possibly huge). A long time ago I scraped all the black paint off the doors and there was no sign of any emblem or signwriting on the doors so I assumed she might have been mixed up with some other car she had.
Move forward 20 years or so and when I was doing more paint forensics on the car last year I noticed that there seemed to be a green re-spray on one of the doors.
I’m not working on the Imp at all just now as trying to finish another project (my Daimler) so that I can then devote all my time to the Imp, which will be my last ever project.
For various reasons I wasn’t doing any work on the VDP tonight and I found myself out with a chisel doing the archaeology bit on the Imp. There is definitely a later paint job in the original colour on it, on top of some dark grey primer over body filler. Its almost a cm thick!! Maybe the motif or traces of it will be under that…….
Hillman Imp Pick-Up Restoration 