One-Off Quiz #43 - Finished

[carsntrucks4you]

This is not a pedal car and it is not a toy car it is a prototype designed by Gorden Bedson and Keith Peckmore. Shortly after the successful lunch of the FriskySport they began with the FriskySprint. It was present to the publich at the 1958 earls Court Show in London. The FriskySprint got everyones imagination. During the show the first glimps showed up that  this would be only a prototype. Both designers got a new job in Australian and shortly after the show the left  Frisky. And Ffriksy was in finacial trouble and were closed in 1959.

 

The correct answer were sent in by

otherunicorn

Matt Bacon

Ace-Garegeguy

Thom

Mittagskind

DonW

Richard Bartrop

 

Congratulations and thanks to Earl Marischall for this idea

 

Edited January 29, 2024 by carsntrucks4you

[Ace-Garageguy]

PM'd   

Edited January 24, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[DonW]

I bet the driver doesn't have a girlfriend - and probably not many friends either!?

PM sent

 

[peteski]

Is that a pedal car for adults, or does it have an engine in it?  Or maybe just bunch of hamsters running it?

If there is an engine, it must be in the rear because the driver's legs are probably taking up most of the under hood space.

Edited January 27, 2024 by peteski

[Matt Bacon]

I think it’s like a Little Tikes Coupe. It moves by him running. You just can’t see his feet on the floor behind the front wheel…

best,

M.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Very often some men seem to need huge vehicles to compensate for something or other. Perhaps this is the reverse.  

[DonW]

The makers planned a Mark 2 version with more power and 100 mph top speed. Thankfully, they never built it!?

[Ace-Garageguy]

3 hours ago, DonW said:

The makers planned a Mark 2 version with more power and 100 mph top speed. Thankfully, they never built it!?

Hey...it's not the speed that kills ya. It's the sudden stop if you hit a squirrel.

[peteski]

So it was rear-engined. Makes sense with the driver's feet and pedals way up in the car's nose.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Even though it was tiny and perhaps terminally "cute", it was also as technically sophisticated as some of its well known contemporaries, like the Porsche 550 Spyder. Tube frame, transverse mid-mounted 3-cylinder aircooled engine, 4-wheel independent suspension, etc., and was intended to be a factory-built competition car, again like the 550, with a larger-engined version planned.

Edited January 31, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[Matt Bacon]

Look what I found:

It's not the Sport model, but they had enough profile to make it into cross-sectional fame in a leading boys' magazine...

best,

M.