on the driver's right-hand side for a The first Arrow model to be launched, the Hillman Hunter, was presented as a replacement for the For the first two years there were few changes. Turning to the contact breaker, one finds 0.015 in gap (not so different from Morris’s) and 51 + 5 deg. I think the answer is just age.

The Hunter's other claim to Kiwi fame was being the first CKD model line to pass the 30,000-unit mark during its 12-year run. There are brushed nylon seats or sturdy vinyl, a lockable box for storing gloves and a viscous-coupled cooling fan for when you are stuck in a traffic jam outside Birmingham for three hours on a hot day.What makes the Hillman so very useful is not the sleek and aerodynamic body-work but the Laycock overdrive and four-speed ´box. I calculate that upwards of four packs of cigarettes can be managed by the ashtrays in the car. It belonged to a client’s wife and I was asked as a favour to drive it from his home to the dealership where I worked at the time in Cork city.Rather naturally I dreaded the prospect, but to my blank surprise and genuine horror, I found it charming. Singer Gazelle and Vogue models were also sold in the UK for one season badged as Sunbeams after the Singer brand was withdrawn. I tried to pacify them but to no avail – they were full on ranting.I must disagree with you on the Marina, Stephen. These changes gave the "GL" a much more distinctive appearance front and rear.

Initially the cars were offered with tan, red, blue or black upholstery with the dash painted to match but after a few months, Todd's switched to a new type of vinyl with different colours and texture for their Avenger, Hunter and Valiant lines, the blue option was dropped and the dashboards reverted to black paint. To make the car even more alluring as a sales prospect, Hillman have added inertia reel safety seat belt straps (which you don’t have to use). Was he particularly heavy footed?Autocar of 1975 concurs with the 24 mpg figure.
Even by the standards of the time, it was a bad and cynical car, and a shameful product from a company that had been groundbreakers. Full local production began in 1985, after the original British production lines were closed. It even looks rather sporting from some views. He recommended SAE 20W/50 and again, I raised my eyebrows. The most prolific model within the Arrow range, the Hillman Hunter, was the The Arrow range was conceived in 1962. In the second half of the 1970s, if you ever saw a deep red Hunter with two guys in it, you always knew to slow down. The twin carburettor engined "Hillman Hunter GT" eventually replaced the Hillman GT, and the Holbay-engined GLS was positioned at the top of the range. It forms part of a very short list of cars that really surprised me. There is none of the fussing one associates with Italian or French cars. This was largely based on the Hunter Super and equipped with overdrive, radio, vinyl roof, Rostyle wheels and a special half cloth upholstery as standard. The Hunter and the Vogue were assembled locally in South Africa, beginning in 1968. The range's first major facelift for 1972 brought an uprated motor with new carburettor and ignition tuning, re-profiled camshaft and a plastic air cleaner housing (these models were always harder to keep in tune than their predecessors), smaller, squarer headlamps, a new dashboard with deeply hooded round dials (the Hunters had strip speedometers previously), high-backed front seats, and a revised silver trim panel surrounding the tail lights. Part 1. By the mid-70s, the Hunter was an old model and under siege from newer Japanese rivals.

Insulation degrades and, really, the whole ignition circuit should be stripped out and reinstalled. It featured a twin Zenith Stromberg CD150 carburettor version of the 1725 engine developing 94 bhp and The car's image was boosted when a Hunter driven by The range was soon simplified with trim levels and varying engine specifications: the Hillman Hunter DeLuxe or DL replaced the Minx and retained the 1496 cc engine; the 1725 cc engine with an iron cylinder head being an option on these entry level models. A more detailed facelift for 1972 brought a new all-plastic dashboard with deeply hooded round dials (earlier versions had either a strip speedometer or round dials in a flat dashboard for more expensive models like the Vogue), new steering wheel, plastic instead of metal air cleaner, reshaped squarer headlamps in a new grille and some engine tuning changes. Technically, the Hunter is nothing to write home about.

However, in May 1968 power assisted brakes were made available as a factory fitted option.A mild facelift in 1970 gave new grilles to the various Hunter trim levels, and some derivatives gained a (then) more fashionable dashboard, exchanging wood for plastic, but the car remained fundamentally the same throughout its life. Above that were the Hunter Super and Hunter GL, both with the higher specification alloy headed engine and two different trim levels. And before you say anything about Allegro’s, Mark Hamilton, the electro-shock therapy has been very effective.Eoin. Radial ply tubeless tyres are fitted all around. The first models, launched on the domestic market in October 1966 with a 1725 cc engine, were given the Hillman Hunter name with the respected name Hillman Minx (for the cheaper 1496 cc version), following in January 1967.Sports models included the Hillman GT, which was based on the Minx trim, but was a model in its own right (not a "Hillman Minx GT" nor "Hillman Hunter GT").

The key is that someone decided to preserve it, and I imagine that is the reason they can claim to be Britain’s most popular classics mag – as long as it’s a car then it’s welcome, no questions asked.

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