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But on the road, where this thing was going to spend most of its life, the bike engine would be a pain. Bike engined cars are awesome on the track, and bike engines are just better than car engines in terms of technology. He'd lusted after an Imp for many years, and this was the realisation of a dream! He asked if he should put a motorbike engine in, to which my reply (based solely on my own opinion) was no, you shouldn't. It didn't have an engine fitted, it was basically a rolling shell he'd bought from a field: A long, long time ago, a young man by the name of Tim came to me on the recommendation of a friend, and said that he had a Hillman Imp, and wanted to put an engine in it. Long story short (I'll do the longer ones sometime in the future), I run a small workshop specialising in restoration (mainly TVR chassis) but also tinkering in classic and modern classic cars, as well as a plethora of kit cars and specials. Not this one though, oh no! This one is even older.and Scottish! So what's the crack? I've got a million other readers cars threads going (because I have about a million cars) and most of them are old and French. Sometimes, things happen which initially start out bad, but switch to a positive, depending on the way you look at them. Sometimes bad things happen, and sometimes good things happen. Sometimes life doesn't go the way you expect it to. Have neglected this site in recent years, and forgot just how good some of the content is! Having read through other people's builds, I thought I'd copy mine over from other forums, starting with my Imp (spread over a few posts!):