The Hillman Imp is a small economy car made by the Rootes Group and its successor Chrysler Europe from 1963 until 1976.

Revealed on 3 rd May 1963, after much advance publicity, it was the first British mass-produced car with the engine block and cylinder head cast in aluminium.

Initially, the Imp was seen by Rootes as a potential second car for families with the means to acquire one.

In this incarnation, it was a somewhat revolutionary, high-quality small car, with some above average features.

Later the concept evolved into a kind of ultra-economy car with some cheaply and poorly executed design features as a utilitarian vehicle, like some of the Eastern European marques of the time like Škoda, and later Lada (which were relatively low-cost economy cars) popular with British consumers.

At one point the basic Hillman Imp was the cheapest new car on the British market, which increased low sales figures for a time.

Every now and then we come across a very rare example and here is on...