Automotive Services Shikari 6

[MisterH]

Many years ago, around 2015, when I was exploring the area around Winchester where I live, I came across a strange gull winged 6 wheel car called the Shikari

I knew immediately this was something special, it was so strange, looked like a Bond villain's base runaround, or something similar. 

It is clearly made using BL/Ford parts, but is clearly on a unique chassis 

I have tried looking this thing up online and have found very little information on it, but I do know it is called the Automotive Services Shikari 6, and was built in Winchester sometime in the mid 70s-early 80s. 

 

It would be nice to take this on as it doesn't look very complicated, but the smashed windscreen may be irreplaceable (but I suspect it could be a parts bin item) and being an unregistered prototype it may be a difficult legal matter, eitherway it isn't something I am willing to take on at the moment, though if someone here is interested, I can drop a post-it on it and hope for the best, it was there last summer, assume it still is. 

I would appreciate your thoughts on this enigma

[Mr Pastry]

My thoughts - 1.  That's a Perspex screen.  2.  More trouble than it is worth.

[MisterH]

3 minutes ago, Mr Pastry said:

My thoughts - 1.  That's a Perspex screen.  2.  More trouble than it is worth.

I must admit I was thinking along the same lines, must be realistic

[goosey]

interesting machine,
What driveline is on this ?

 

[MisterH]

1 minute ago, goosey said:

interesting machine,
What driveline is on this ?

 

I think it is Mini/Metro based, according to this article, I think they did earlier 6-wheel mini jobs before starting a related venture in Winchester

http://maximummini.blogspot.com/2020/03/shikari.html

[Mr Pastry]

It is quite nice though to discover a car which nobody on the interwebz knows anything about! 

 

[Ghosty]

Metro headlights... 

[bezzabsa]

Looks very much like a Sherpa screen.. the corners especially....and also look like Ford GL wheels on the rear..

would be easy enough to throw another screen surround at it....if you can mould fibreglass..

[bezzabsa]

Found this...Here...clicky thinky looking a bit more down at heel than the previous piccies..but also shows the remains of a canopy of sorts on the back

[somewhatfoolish]

That looks terrible; when are you having it delivered? IVA might be a bit fruity, perhaps try chancing it as an agricultural vehicle.

[bezzabsa]

and also bears no relation to its fore bears

Stimson

 

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, Mr Pastry said:

My thoughts - 1.  That's a Perspex screen.  2.  More trouble than it is worth.

Given the way the smash/orifice appears I'd say  you're right.

[MisterH]

8 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said:

That looks terrible; when are you having it delivered? IVA might be a bit fruity, perhaps try chancing it as an agricultural vehicle.

Oh I haven't bought it, it isn't mine, I just found it and virtually no one seems to know what it is, at last though I have a place I can talk about it

[spartacus]

Buy buy buy!!!

That's grim, it needs saving and an epic thread about the trials of locating obscure parts and the difficulties of registering it writing up.

[Mally]

My thoughts.

1. You don't need a screen.

2. You do need it to be registered, unless you own a field.

[MisterH]

7 minutes ago, Mally said:

My thoughts.

1. You don't need a screen.

2. You do need it to be registered, unless you own a field.

We do own a field, just an inaccessible one...

[Mally]

4 minutes ago, MisterH said:

We do own a field, just an inaccessible one...

Helicopter!

[MisterH]

Just now, Mally said:

Helicopter!

With the amount of Tat on my wishlist, an Antonov An-225 would be needed...

[castros_bro]

I'd have thought the difference between a mock up and a working one might just be fitting a Metro Engine and gearbox,, and would be so little as to make it pointless to make just a mock up. if you can remove the screen without breaking it more, maybe with a bit of added support across the missing bit, it is not too difficult make a wooden form to shape and reproduce a one off perspex screen, Ive done that for Berkeley T60s and B90s. There's other 6 wheeled Mini engine kits form similar era so a chance they share some parts  (hopefully not the hydroplastic suspenders) though the wheel size looks completely different.  If I still lived in Winchester and worked at the motocross track  I'd be interested.  Theese people possibly know  more  https://minimarcos.org.uk/altpics/index.html

Scamp

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