a long journey in the summer the carburettor would vapourise petrol after the ignition was cut off causing problems to restart it, so I then cut a hole in the bonnet and screwed on an air dam I found in a scrap yard to help cool things down.  I then came across these really wide Mini wheels and so put those onto the back. The problem now was the wheels stuck out to far so I had to use "modified" Mini arches to cover the wheels. This really helped cornering at speed no end.

It was whilst I was at College that a lady used to constantly block the entrance out with her arms wide apart. She would find it highly amusing to stand in the middle of the drive way and not let me out. To try and budge her from the drive way this resulted in an electric screen washer (the kind that squirts water onto your windscreen) being fixed at the front of the car behind the mesh grill. I now had an electric water pistol on the front of the car that would squirt water at this lady every time she stood in front of my car and also any unsuspecting friends and I think I may have got a few other people as they crossed the road and sniggered at my 3-wheeled wonder?

The final change was inside the car when I re-carpeted it all in extremely thick Axminster carpet (to help make it quieter) and made a wooden glove box, with a few Jaguar instruments added to the dashboard.  This was then covered in Walnut effect stick on fablon so I had a full Axminster and walnut interior. Much to my amazement when I joined the Reliant Owners Club a few months later the car came 1st in "The Best Early Robin" award.

My Robin and I went literally from one end of the country to the other but sadly it was wrote off in 1992. I was stationary and a lady in a Vauxhall Astra decided to park her car into my rear end. The concluding hole had the Insurance people shaking their heads and so my Robin was no more.

Once the Insurance paid for my Robin I brought my second 3-wheeler in 1992 which was a 1981 Reliant Rialto (XEH846X). This seemed completely different to my Robin and seemed to be a little bit more sensible than the Robin.  My Robin was a fun car to own and constantly made people smile but the Rialto did not seem to have that quality.  It was a lot quieter though and faster as this had the 850cc engine.

My Rialto served me until the end of my University days. After I graduated in 1995 I used the car to start work but one day whilst driving down the motorway the throttle cable snapped. As the car sat in the lay by a rather large lorry hurtled back catching the Rialto and removing the rear offside corner and shaving an inch off the side.  Thankfully how no one was injured defies logic but the driver of the lorry did not stop.  Repairs were made to the car which then served a few months more before it was sold on.

I then decided to take my driving test and then after passing it I now have a 4-wheeler. (Rover 620SLi). My conclusion, 4-wheelers are great and big, but they just do not have the same amount of fun in driving them as a 3-wheeler.  4-wheelers are just 4-wheelers what ever the badge says on the back but a 3-wheeler always gets noticed and raises a smile