Massive price for Californian

Among the lots at H&H’S Duxford sale on 15 November was a Hillman Imp Californian that had covered a meagre 82 miles since leaving the Linwood factory in the late 1960s. The Forest Green Rootes fastback was unsurprisingly in first class condition and attracted some frenzied bidding. It was eventually hammered down for £20,700, blitzing its £6-8000 estimate.

1968 Hillman had done a mere 82 miles