PK JIMP

The real ones will remember my story about the Sipani Montana.

Both the Montana and the PK JIMP are proof that though Reliant didn't have too much success revolutionizing UK roads, it did figure out how to convince factories and entrepreneurs in other countries to build its designs.

In this case, the JIMP was released in the early ’80s, as sources say, and assembled in Sandbach, Cheshire by PK (Peter Kukla) Manufacturing. 

First, if you're really interested in the JIMP, there was a site at pkjimp.co.uk, which I mention here in case it comes back online.

Second, there’s not much to report — it has a clamshell hood, it’s shockingly simple, and for those of us calling for “more simple cars,” the JIMP is as close to a blank slate as you can get. Overall, it reminds me a lot of Sir William Towns’ Hustler series of kit cars.

Sixty-seven JIMPs were made, and that's about the number of people I'd expect to be interested in a Reliant Kitten that got a tougher body shell in pickup, pickup with canvas top, van, or convertible form.