Hey Guys, The BEX Elio alternate

It's me again, the funny looking Australian guy in China who was developing a Trike until my heart broke, and not by a girl! :-) Recovering well, but the Trike is on standby, and in the meantime ...

Some of you may be aware of about 10 years ago the Elio Motors 3 wheel, tandem 2 seat, econocar was announced as a commercial project, with deposits called for and stockmarket options.

Over 22,000 people paid a $1000 premium deposit, over 45,000 more put $100 deposit for a ticket number, and many also bought stocks.To this day Elio Motors [B]has not[/B] produced a single car. You can Google the whole story if you don't already know it.

So I figured there must be a few of the customers out there who still want one, I was right, there is, so I first built a rough prototype to figure layout, seen here:

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKJxY-oyM0w[/url]

And now have built a pre-production prototype that is close to the mark, still a few things to figure out, but quite happy with where it's going.

Here's the first test drive ...

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-RVzfhWZE[/url]

will drop some build pictures in the next few posts later.

The bodyshell is now starting to be developed, but the will be a naked version as well.

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