Car identification please

[kestral]

Can anyone tell me the make model of this car please?

[Deerfoot]

Looks a bit like a Reliant Kitten to me.

[Shaw Tarse]

https://gr8autophoto.com/imgs/30410-tuning-reliant...

[csd19]

That's a Reliant Kitten De Luxe, chucked the reg through cardatachecks.co.uk and that's what it is...

[MDMA .]

It also has a 2.0 YB Cosworth supercharged engine in it

[finlo]

Its a four wheeled three wheeler!

[Sebring440]

finlo said:

Its a four wheeled three wheeler!

Was the Reliant Kitten not a four-wheeler?

[Equus]

Sebring440 said:

finlo said:

Its a four wheeled three wheeler!

Was the Reliant Kitten not a four-wheeler?

Yes, it was the four wheeled version of the Reliant Robin three wheeler.

[aeropilot]

Sebring440 said:

finlo said:

Its a four wheeled three wheeler!

Was the Reliant Kitten not a four-wheeler?

Yes, the Kitten was factory fitted with four wheels



A guy in the office when I started work at 17, back in 1980 had a Kitten, and in hearing aid beige as well.........he did get a lot of stick for it

[kestral]

Thanks. Cosworth engine!

[williamp]

...most will call it a Kitten Reliant, of course

[Escort3500]

williamp said:

...most will call it a Kitten Reliant, of course

[gt40steve]

Remember the 4 wheeler it replaced ?
The Reliant Rebel, 1964 to 1974.

[Skyedriver]

aeropilot said:

A guy in the office when I started work at 17, back in 1980 had a Kitten, and in hearing aid beige as well.........he did get a lot of stick for it

Young lad in our office had one as well. Blue. Wasn't such a bad old thing. Some folk used to transplant the mini subframe and engine into them ISTR

[Risonax]

The moment Reliant cashed in (selling on rights to an Indian car maker):



Apparently this was the most modern Indian car at the time



[img]https://magazine.derivaz-ives.com/content/images/2023/04/12-Zuhin-also-has-a-Mumbai-taxi-and-it-is-easy-to-see-that-the-Dolphin-is-markedly-smaller-than-a-Premier-Padmini.jpg[/pic]

The Sipani Dolphin. Apparently, when fitted with a Ford engine, they used to race these things.

Rally spec Kitten (Dolphin)





Then they added 2 doors and a 25hp diesel. Not surprisingly, a flop



The last attempt reuse the Reliant chassis was the Sipani D1, which bizarrely combined a Reliant Kitten chassis with a modified Daihatsu body, which got the choice of a Indian made Reliant engine or a BMC diesel. Last full frame passenger car?



Sipani went on to build Indian Montegos, using advertising copy seemingly inspired by condoms, ribbed.

[zalrak]

Way back in the '80s I heard of a friend of a friend who had either a Kitten or a Robin who left his car parked up while he went to play 5-a-side. When he came back to his car he found that his 'friends' had relocated his car on this little spot of land:


https://www.google.com/maps/@54.6195682,-1.0760081...