cool, but gimme a Matra 670 any day over this.

I dub thee "The Decapitation-Mobile".

He should make three of them and make them stackable!

"it'd be smart to have something that looks like the Batmobile, but call it the Flatmobile."

Smart? Maxwell Smart maybe.

I can't help feeling a tingle of anticipation at the other smart concepts we'll soon be seeing.

The Fatmobile = A Ford Excursion painted pink witha car thong.

The Catmobile = A mercury cougar that's been parked in a feline-infested barn for twenty years.

The Pratmobile = Jeremy Clarkson's Gallardo

The Mattmobile = A car that has sex with Sarah Silverman

The Gnatmobile = every half-assed-tuned Honda Civic with a cannonball exhaust.

DUCK!

@dolo54:
We can only hope.

maybe it's just compression artifacts in the crappy video, but in every shot of him driving it he looks like he's wearing a gold-tone papal mitre.

Also, I like the anti-kickback pawls along the inside edge of the cockpits. Handy in case you hit something - after flying forward where there is no windscreen to catch you, one of these will grab you by the ribs to prevent you from flying backwards and snapping your spine on the seat back.

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Driven by Flatman and Robin...

I thought flat meant apartment over there.

Street Legal? Really?

@AllenK: "Flatman and Ribbon"

All fixed now. (you can thank my kids.)

Cute, but in 1969 a British designer named Dennis Adams managed a *closed* car (Probe 15) with a height of 29 inches - only 10 inches more than this open pancake. Interestingly enough, it was also based on Imp running gear.

@boosted-lego-wagon:
Hahahahahah nicely done, sir.

Good work on the galleries; now please get a new video player that can work with widescreen (and can actually seek), please. Squishing this video horizontally completely counteracts the point that it's trying to get across-that the car is low.

The air of aloof obviousness he casts about himself when citing his reasons for building this car is flabbergasting.

If I ever cheat on my wife, I want this guy to do the explaining for me.

"horrendous" > "horrible"

just to recap, I get the Matra and Ace and Gary can have this as their beach car.

I am wondering how in the world he got this past MoT scrutineering. With all the pointy bits, it clearly does not work with the radius testing in England.

He looks like Mr. Potatohead driving that thing!

I had a bed like that when I was 10.

@wookie1901:
"Street Legal? Really?"

Ariel Atoms, Radicals, all sorts of trikes etc have been street legal in the UK for years (jealous!), but this is ridiculous.

@boosted-lego-wagon: COTD nomination, X 6!
(especially the Clarkson one.)

This American's interpretation of British slang:

Prat: A fool, idiot or objectionable person, (interestingly, probably from the American "pratfall" = to fall on one's bum.)

smart: "looking smart", attention grabbing.

@FreeMan:

Thanks!I'm slow on Monday.

I thought the guys head looked more like a bobble head ornament on the dash of a remote control car. Neat car though.

And I thought the lowest lowrider title would be held by someone from east LA.

Every time the video shows him driving the car, for an instant, my mind says, "Holy Crap! there is a head floating down the street!" Just looks weird

Yeah, but can you fit it in a suitcase?

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@tonyola: Adams Probe 15, more famously known as the Durango 95 from a certain flick.

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Essentially the SVA test for road legality cares little for driver safety; it's the effect on people you hit that is legislated.
That being said I'm still surprised this made it through.

@hairykrishna: Ow! My ankles!

Holy Crap!

Sorry; had to be said.

No wonder it's horrendous to drive. It's got a substantially lower COG than an Imp, but you have to put a couple of concrete paving slabs in the boot of those things to stop the front end taking off in high winds.

It's not practical, it's not comfortable, but hey, it's cool as hell!

HOLY F*CK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i need a six inch chrome steering wheel now

With that compressed video, all I see is Beavis driving an updated flying shingle...

@nightsky: My sentiments exactly. Just like this:

+ Watch video

(car related. honest.)

Typical British car, look at 1:10 for the tray to catch oil drips.

@tonyola:
Hi, I was the (first) owner of this car. I am trying to find out if anyone knows where I can locate either Peter or Denis Adams? Or if they are even still alive. I can tell you that in 1969 the Probe (15) was the lowest car in the world then. Regards, Mauritz.