When I went to the “Wings and Wheels” event, I already had a roll of Kodak Ektar in the Canon EOS 30, so the first images I made were in colour. After the hard work of scanning the roll of Phoenix II the other day, this was nothing short of a dream! All of the images scanned fine, ready to use, only 2 out of 36 needing a little colour correction, just warming up a bit!
At the show there were a few cars with three wheels, including a BMW! The steering arrangement reminds me of my red plastic pedal car I had as a small child 🙂
S.H.O.U.T. 
Interesting. Has anyone figured out how to make these stable at high speed?
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Hi Khurt! I think reverse might be the word!! 🙂 The Reliant Robin (Plastic Pig) in the first photo has a 850cc engine and has a top speed of 85mph apparently. I’m not sure I’d want to be in one going at that speed! Perhaps the way to think of it is as a motorbike with an extra wheel rather than a car minus a wheel! Cheers Andy
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Yeah, I can’t imagine the “Plastic Pig” lining up on a MotoGP grid—unless it’s for comedy relief. Pretty sure race control would wave that one straight back to the car park. Cheers!
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No Invacar present? 🙂 I always seem to get photos of those at vintage rallies and similar events. Plus the occasional Bond Bug.
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Hi Nige! No I didn’t see one. When I was younger there was one in the neighbourhood and I passed it every day. These days I haven’t seen one on the road for years! Cheers Andy
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I watched some British TV show years and years ago where the frequent punchline was a Reliant Robin tipping over while cornering. Madcap, positively madcap I say.
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Hi Jim! That would have been The Adventures of Mr Bean, running one off the road! Not tempted to hire one for a road trip then? 🙂 – Cheers Andy
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Like the Berkeley 3 wheeler in the last image.
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Hi! I do too – but with my knees at the moment, I could get in one OK, getting out may be another thing! 🙂 Cheers Andy
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The vehicles with two wheels at the front and one at the back are very stable – the ones with one wheel at the front, are… not.
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One of our family stories is of my Auntie Olive and Uncle Frank travelling in convoy with the rest of the family to a caravan site in North Wales. My Dad and Uncle Terry had ‘big’ cars – for those days. A Vauxhall Velox and a Citroen something or other. Bench seats, gear sticks on the steering column and no seatbelts so you could get two or three adults and half a dozen kids in each. Frank and Olive had a Bond Mini – a sort of earlier version of the Reliant Robin, one wheel at the front. Not being able to get more than two people in, Auntie Olive was tasked with holding a huge cooking pot of beef and dumpling stew on her lap to feed the family when we arrived. Uncle Frank took one of the Islands on the old A5 a bit too quick (!) The car wasn’t too badly damaged, after it had been rolled back onto its wheels and, whilst shook up, they weren’t seriously injured. Unfortunately, the entire interior of the car and both occupants were liberally covered in beef stew and dumplings.
This was about 40 years before the internet or mobile phones. Shame – that would have made a great video for YouTube or Tik Tok 😉
Steve
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…. indeed and Mr Bean would agree! I’ve never been in one and not sure that I would want to!! Cheers Andy
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Hi Steve! As I was reading your story I wondered if the end would be that the cooking pot stayed upright with your Auntie acting like some form of amazing stabilizing system – alas not!! Funny thing is I assumed it would be a “tip up” tale from the start! I once saw one of the Reliant Robin cars hit a wal; at no great speed, no one was hurt, and the driver just sat there looking quite bemused by it all. The car however shattered like an egg!! Cheers Andy
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