Over to day 2 of Three-Wheeler Week here at Maximum Mini, with a real oddity having been unearthed by Stewart Adeline O'Neil. He wrote to me about what he found since he had no clue about it: "Sorry to bother you Jeroen, but you have been recommended to me about this three wheeler. It's got an all-fibreglass body. Do you think this is a ABC Tricar? Regards, Stewart."
Well, I have no clue either! It looks to be professionally built to me, but I have never come across anything like it and wonder if it really is a one-off - just imagine the work that must have gone into building it. There must have been moulds made to make the body in the first place. The interior and some of the details make me think this was built in the late 1980s or even early 1990s but the chassis number seems quite a lot older. So... who knows more about this one?
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Up until the b-posts this looks pretty much like a Mini, but it's all fibreglass
Picture Stewart Adeline O'Neil
The back is a whole different story, with just one wheel and small hatchback door
Picture Stewart Adeline O'Neil
When and where was it built, by who and why? It looks not to have had plates?
Picture Stewart Adeline O'Neil
Is it me or the picture or do the proportions seem kind of odd?
Picture Stewart Adeline O'Neil
Under bonnet it's all standard Mini. That seems like a 998 engine to me
Picture Stewart Adeline O'Neil
There's also a chassis number, one from a Mini donor..?
Picture Stewart Adeline O'Neil
Interior oozes 1980s or even 1990s also. Who knows more about this 3-wheeler?
Picture Stewart Adeline O'Neil