RRS Wasp survives... and can be yours

Remember last month's Mystery Mini Derivative, known as the RRS Wasp? (click here if not). Well, I have been sent some pictures of the car taken very recently in a showroom in the Midlands. It looks to be in excellent condition and is for sale, too! The seller is open to offers. Information about its history remains unavailable though, so the hunt for its original builder continues. Who knows more about the Wasp's' past?

RRS Wasp looks in excellent condition and is currently offered for sale

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 The three-wheeler was last month's Mystery Mini Derivative, but its history remains blurry

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Plain simple interior certainly used 1100 bits - seats, dashboard and wheel...

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And the engine is believed to have been sourced from an Austin or Morris 1100 also

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The RRS Wasp is for sale. I'll get you in touch with the seller when you are interested

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Mystery Mini derivative (52)

Another mystery Mini based creature that asks for some clarification. What is this three-wheeler seen below? Oh, hang on, I actually know what it is supposedly named: the RRS Wasp, since the pictures were published in Kit Car magazine with a few lines, many moons ago.
In fact the three-wheeler was spotted at the Stoneleigh kit car show in the late 1980s where it was brought to by then-owner Terry Chambers. Chambers had just saved it from a Lincolnshire scrapyard. He is said to have brought it to the show "to see whether anyone could identify it". To further quote from the article: "The car is built on a beautifully constructed steel tube chassis, the quality of which does not seem to match the standard of its styling." Perhaps anyone here knows more..?

UPDATE 6 November 2018: It survives and is for sale! Click here.

This is believed to be the (or a?) RRS Wasp. A three-wheeler shrouded in mystery

Picture Kit Car Magazine / Jeroen Booij archive

The car supposedly used 1100 or 1300 power but any further information is unknown

Picture Kit Car Magazine / Jeroen Booij archive