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Solved - NEH 2676: KNW Imposter - 1976
« on: May 15, 2013, 09:48:54 AM »
What's this, by whom, from when and based on what - for 1 point?:

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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2013, 05:27:37 AM »
Experts?
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2013, 05:31:38 AM »
IIRC it appeared in Hot Car , I think it was a rebodied Reliant ROBIN
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2013, 05:35:17 AM »
FOR ROBIN READ KITTEN
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2013, 06:07:10 AM »
Quote from: shamrock on May 22, 2013, 05:35:17 AM
FOR ROBIN READ KITTEN

No, sorry - it's not Reliant-based at all..
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #5 on: May 25, 2013, 05:24:52 PM »
Well it has what looks like Cortina Mk2 rear lights.

Wild guess - Triumph base
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2013, 07:21:00 PM »
Quote from: gilescooperuk on May 25, 2013, 05:24:52 PM
Well it has what looks like Cortina Mk2 rear lights.

Wild guess - Triumph base

They are indeed Mk 2 Cortina rear lights, but it's not Triumph-based.
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2013, 06:34:02 AM »
OK, up to the Pro's then...
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2013, 06:35:47 AM »
This is the KNW (also known as the Imperator), built in 1976 using a Hillman Imp as its mechanical base.  The TR7 has a lot to answer for!!
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2013, 06:43:26 AM »
Too late!
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2013, 07:17:10 AM »
Quote from: Djetset on June 05, 2013, 06:35:47 AM
This is the KNW (also known as the Imperator), built in 1976 using a Hillman Imp as its mechanical base.  The TR7 has a lot to answer for!!

Close but not quite a cigar yet..

It is the KNW and it does have an Imp engine but have another look at that name, and don't forget that for the point I need to know the name of its builder plus what the car was actually based on, rather than what engine it used, which is not quite the same thing!
Incidentally the source insists that this car actually pre-dated the TR7, which didn't come out until 1977/8 I believe.

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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2013, 11:41:08 AM »
The chassis was taken from a Siva Llama kit car (which was also Imp-based) and it was built in 1976 by Keith Hawley (with KNW being his initials). 

The Triumph TR7 was launched in 1975 (initially for North America only) with UK and some EU market sales beginning in 1976, so around the same time as the KNW.
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2013, 12:09:14 PM »
Quote from: Djetset on June 05, 2013, 11:41:08 AM
The chassis was taken from a Siva Llama kit car (which was also Imp-based) and it was built in 1976 by Keith Hawley (with KNW being his initials). 

The Triumph TR7 was launched in 1975 (initially for North America only) with UK and some EU market sales beginning in 1976, so around the same time as the KNW.

All correct (though I'm not sure how KNW are Keith Hawley's initials!) but you still haven't given me the correct name of the car!

It was a KNW ******; what do the stars stand for (and you're correct in that the name started with Imp, but it's not Imperator it's Imp********!)?

The cigar is still on hold for you!
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2013, 12:35:55 PM »
It was sometimes known as the Imperator, as I mentioned earlier, and also later the Imposter.
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Re: NEH 2676
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2013, 02:39:42 PM »
Quote from: Djetset on June 05, 2013, 12:35:55 PM
It was sometimes known as the Imperator, as I mentioned earlier, and also later the Imposter.

Aha we got there!
Imposter is right, but I haven't seen the name Imperator in connection with it.
Time to light up that cigar!

In the meantime a few more pictures:

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Re: Solved - NEH 2676: KNW Imposter - 1976
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2013, 05:11:50 AM »
And a couple more pictures I found:

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Re: Solved - NEH 2676: KNW Imposter - 1976
« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2021, 09:16:51 AM »
The text on the site this picture came from says the car was built in 1972; if that's correct then it pre-dates the Triumph TR7 by a number of years..:

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