Vintage Thing No.80 - Charleston Special
The Charleston Special - that's what the owner called it and even he wasn't sure this was right. To anyone expecting to read about 2CVs, sorry - this Charleston Special is based on a Hillman Imp. It turned up at the ARCC (Association of Rootes Car Clubs) Rally at Blenhiem Palace in 2000, intrigued lots of people quite apart from myself and then dropped out of our lives. The owner at the time admitted to not knowing a great deal about it and it was up for sale so probably has changed hands at least once since then. The low pivot point of the front wishbones would hamper off road performance but on road performance must have been like a little go-kart. UVA produced the F30, which was a purely road going version of their Fugitive kit. Apparently too many people were fitting Rover V8s into the back of the off-road rails and making badly over-engined (note that these weren't not well over engineered ) monstrosities. More isn't always more. What I do know is that it...