Inner beauty. The Stimson Scorcher should have it. The monster is most like a motorized broomstick from the Harry Potter films.
At the time even the British bureaucracy had a hard time with it. Was the Scorcher a car, a motorcycle, a tricycle or a dingest? The construction was in any case born of the dream of a gap between the lowest possible tax rate and the most sporty character possible at minimal costs. The kit was sold for 385 Pound and could be taken home on a roof rack. The Mini subframe and appendages could be scored on a cart at the local demolition.
We write 1976 and the British Government decides that the Scorcher is a motorcycle with a sidecar.
As a result, the driver and first passenger had to wear a helmet. Number three in a row was a legal passenger in a sidecar and did not need a crash cap.
Designer Barry Stimpson, the designer advised that all three passengers would wear head protection. Not a bad idea for a butterfly light vehicle where the front and drive came from a Mini and where the top was a loose 160 km / h.
The body was made of fiberglass-reinforced polyester and without the optional 'bonnet' the thing was minimal.
The British kitcar market was booming in the mid-seventies. But when the British equivalent of VAT applied to it, the market that had always been 'budget drives' plummeted.
Such an 30 Stimson Scorchers have been made. Hard core kitcar enthusiasts now pay a fortune for it, according to rumors. But what are rumors worth?
Last year the molds for the Scorcher plus a few unfinished models were offered for sale.
The floor price for the molds was 2000 pounds. That amount was not achieved