Puzzle #787 - Solved! Pellandini

[Otto Puzzell]

Pellandini
Photo Credit: http://www.minimarcos.org.uk

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[Otto Puzzell]

2 months, no guesses...

[Paul Jaray]

Hi, this is the Pellandini, a mini-based (!) sport car.

[Otto Puzzell]

Correct!

From http://www.sportscarisma.com.au:

In England in the late 1950s, Peter Pellandine was the managing director of Falcon Shells, a company manufacturing special fibreglass car bodies for British home constructors.  The most popular model, the Caribbean, sold over 2000 bodies in open and closed styles.

Pellandine came to live in Adelaide in 1961, but it wasn't until 1973 that he developed a new project - the Pellandini coupe.  The Pellandini was  a unitary monocoque construction with steel plates bonded in to high-stress areas like suspension pickup points.
The donor vehicle was the venerable Mini 1100 with the powerplant installed in mid-engined format.  Seven gull-wing door coupe versions were made, and only one open Roadster.  The roadster had a Perspex wind deflector instead of a normal windscreen, and therefore no weather protection equipment was included. But hey - 2 000 000 motorcycle riders can't be wrong.  What a project this would be if one turned up - any modern twin cam multivalve front wheel drive rocket could supply power for this little beauty