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May 30 2020

Rear Engine: 1965 Sunbeam Imp

DailyTurismo Uncategorized British, Imp, Rootes, Scottish, Sunbeam 5

The Hillman/Sunbeam/Chrysler/Rootes Imp was a zippy little descendant of the Scottish built Linwood Imp and was built by the Rootes Group from 1963 to 1976. It used a Beetle-esq rear-engine rear-drive setup but its body shape was anything but Buglike and it looks more like a strange cross between a Ford Escort Mk I and […]

September 18 2014

5k: In My Defens: 1985, 1991 & 1991 Land Rover Defender Diesel

DailyTurismo Uncategorized Defender, Diesel, Land Rover, Scotland, Scottish 2

Imagine for a minute that you are the proud descendants of Pictish people located on a shared island with descendants of Germanic tribes called the Angles. As a Pict, you have been spending your time tending sheep, inventing the bicycle (and over-head valve engine) but mostly keeping to yourselves, while your extroverted neighbors to the […]