Peel P50 on Bring a trailer

"Kiltedpadre" (kiltedpadre) 07/07/2020 at 18:41 • Filed to: None

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This may very well end out as the most expensive car on the site if you look at it in a dollars per pound fashion. I have a weird love for microcars. This thing is definitely cool in my book.

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Many here probably remember this as being the car model that Jeremy Clarkson drove through the BBC offices as part of a segment on the world’s smallest car . If that big ape could fit in one of these there’s hope for me.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Kiltedpadre 07/07/2020 at 18:54

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Parts difficulty rating: 9.8 out of 10 - digging through a field in Bedfordshire

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Kiltedpadre 07/07/2020 at 18:59

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TIL these made it to this continent.

Kiltedpadre > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/07/2020 at 19:07

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I’m imagining it would take owning a steam car to reach 10/10?

Kiltedpadre > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 07/07/2020 at 19:08

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I knew there were at least a few  in the US, but I had assumed they were imported from the UK and not actually sold in North America.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/07/2020 at 19:38

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More likely a Manx field, as they were mostly purchased and driven on the Isle of Man .

ranwhenparked > Kiltedpadre 07/07/2020 at 19:44

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It doesn’t seem like the P50 was ever sold in Canada officially, this example was sold second hand by a marine supply store in Coquitlam, BC in 1968 (3 years after production ended), and how they acquired the car seems to be a bit murky. Though Canada did get a number of oddball British cars in those days, some of which never made it to the US, and it was a lot easier back then  to privately import new cars from overseas that were not officially available locally. 

SiennaMan > Kiltedpadre 07/07/2020 at 19:56

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I’m shocked that there are even a few over here. I too love ridiculously small cars, though my second thought looking at a P50 is “one of the few cars that’s actually more dangerous than just getting a motorcycle and letting fly” . (the first thought being, “if Clarkson got in could I fit my fat ass in one?”)

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Kiltedpadre 07/07/2020 at 20:21

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Currently at $30k USD.

If I had that kind of money to throw around it’d be a hilarious 3rd or 4th car (because I’d have money to throw around) just because I loved that Top Gear segment so much when I first saw it. This, along with the Reliant Robin segment are the ones I show to people who think that Top Gear is just a car review show. It’s so much more stupid than a car review show.

Kiltedpadre > gin-san - shitpost specialist 07/07/2020 at 20:34

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A week to go and already at $240 to go. I’m genuinely curious where it’ll end out, but I expect it to be a big number.

I think a Messerschmitt would be my first choice for a microcar, but this is definitely cool. Either way it’d need to be a 5th or 6th car given how little I could use it.

Kiltedpadre > SiennaMan 07/07/2020 at 20:36

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Yeah, I’d need to have a ridiculously long driveway because even a 20mph school zone would be terrifying with other cars around. It needs one of those orange flags really low bikes use.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 07/07/2020 at 21:22

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I thought they were built under license in Luton starting in 65

pip bip - choose Corrour > Kiltedpadre 07/08/2020 at 03:55

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$30K?

CP!!!!!!

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 07/08/2020 at 16:26

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I wasn’t aware. I knew they were made on the Isle of Man and almost all of the very small number built were sold there. They also produced some in 2011 in Nottinghamshire.