1969 Reliant Regal 3/30 saloon

[Hooli]

Bedford Rascal I think. I drove one once, bloody awful thing.

[Eddie Honda]

Honda Acty

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[mercrocker]

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[DodgeRover]

I'm sure I can remember early 70s registered Suzuki super carrys or something similar - this would have been in the 80s by which point they were all pox rotten.

[Hooli]

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That's the one I was thinking of.

[xtriple]

I've never owned a 3 wheeler but wanted one (guess which!) but driven quite a few Reliant 3 wheelers over the years. As a biker, a lot of friends didn't have car licences so had a variety. Noisy, cramped and )potentially) unstable they may well be, but they were fun and the short shift gearchange, willing engine and lack of rust, I found very appealing.

I did have several Scimitars which were the same really just more expensive and worse build quality

[Eddie Honda]

(Sorry SiC, it's still too cold, so you'll have to put up with "old man" rambling)

This car has been on a trailer/transporter a few times moving around. Probably around 1500 miles worth.

To start with it came up to Scotland on a hire trailer from Goring-on-Thames in 1991, then a few years later in 1997 it went down on a hire trailer to join me in High Wycombe. When I moved out of my bedsit 1998, I got a local recovery firm to move it on a flatbed to the other side of town. Having to move again 2002, I got a banger racer contact of the new landlord to stick it on his flatbed to the next village. 2006 I got the same bloke to again to move it to Staines. Then in 2007 I moved it (piece-by-piece) in a van round the corner to Ashford for a month and a bit. Bought a flatbed caravan chassis located in Marlow used it to relocate it temporarily in Egham. Then towed it up to Carlisle with a borrowed 1.4 Volvo 340. Sat there until October 2019 when I borrowed another trailer from a work mate and it's been here since.

Looking back at the MOT and working it out, I've done 35517 - 30372 = 5145 miles on the road, in the space of about 5 months as my daily.

[AMCrebel]

That is devotion to the old crate - it would probably have been cheaper to sell it and buy another. BTW I don't mean to imply any criticism I think your actions have been 100% sound and logical at all times.

[Hooli]

I can only say I'm sure those trips were a lot more pleasant towing this thing on a trailer than it would have been driving it.

[fried onions]

There is a chap on AS who has a 3 wheeler of similar vintage in good condition, owned long-term, don't know if he posts on here and can't recall his forum name.