It could happen............??

[AlJones]

Watch this....

http://www.dailymotion.com/visited/tag/accident/search/funny/video/xbs2e_incident-autoroute

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[cameronke]

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It could happen............??

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Looks like it did!!!

Very good

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[Twister_Ken]

A school friend had a Hillman Imp. He was coasting downhill on the A3 into Guilford when he was overtaken by a wheel. When he stopped at the traffic lights, his car slowly knelt down. Turned out it was his nearside rear wheel.

 

[PeteMylett]

I had an Hillman imp, and the engine fell out. I kind of lost confidence in it after that...

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

My Imp never drove far enough for the engine to fall out.... you had to stop every 400yards to replace the thermostat....

 

[Sans Bateau]

In my youth we would go from pub to party to party, in any state of inebriation, not that I would condone that sort of thing today!

One night one of the gang, a girl, arrived at the next destination, we were there to meet her in the carpark. Her Hillman Imp was missing a wheel, she had no idea where she lost it!

 

[michael_w]

Don't you mean Hillman Limp? Nice engine for a sidecar outfit though.

 

[Superstrath]

There are Imps and there are Imps.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Especially if you had the Rallye version!

 

[Twister_Ken]

And how about the Sunbeam Stiletto.

My God, did I want one of those instead of my Morris Minor.

 

[Phoenix of Hamble]

Hee hee...

Just reminds me of the little 8" steering wheel I fitted..... bloody ridiculous, but I felt like a driving god at the time!

 

[hannahman]

My parents were following a car towing a large trailer, one with a double set of wheels on each side.
One of the wheels came off and rolled along beside the trailer until hit hit the kerb. At that point it bounced high into the air and promptly landed into the trailer!
Apparently the driver was oblivious to what had gone on. I'd love to have seen his face when he arrived and discovered what had happened! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Doug

 

[Kawasaki]

Believe it or not the Imp engine was used by Sidecar racers of The Day!

 

[fastjedi]

Yeep, been there! Cruising down the fast lane of the M4 on a miserable November evening when suddenly a wheel appears rolling down the white line between the middle and fast lane. I brake hard and tuck in towards the central reservation expecting to get away with it. Unfortunately, as it slowed down it lost its directional stability and smacked the front near side corner of my shiny new Audi. I make my way over to the hard shoulder to join three other damaged cars .... one of which had driven over it ..... broken bumped cover, radiator, almost no steering, lots of dents in the floor. Imagine if it had gone through my windscreen. No idea where it came from (no surprise there) .. but strangely, no idea where it went either (the police held the traffic back while they searched for it)

 

[Norman_E]

My mother knew nothing of cars. She met a friend who had bought a new car. "What make is it?" we asked. Mum replies " I don't know but it looks as if it is made from two pie tins joined at the rim" My father and I both said "Hillman Imp", and we were right.
Incidentally, though the car was not very good, the engine was one of the few at that time to be nearly all made of aluminium, so the builders of racing sidecar outfits loved it. I believe they converted them to dry sump operation with a separate oil tank, and laid the engine flat.

 

[Viking]

Yep!! North bound on M6 some years ago traffic held up in road works. South bound lorry lose a wheel, up ahead. Dammed thing bounced down the three lanes stationary traffic hitting cars and bouncing up has high as the lamppost tops, could move or go anyway. It just kept going.