A Frisky Sports Michelotti Gullwing ?

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Production of the Frisky Sports started in the Henry Meadows factory in 1958.  It had been designed by an English Captain Raymond Flowers in Egypt.  He had been working on a sports car project, but at the same time built a prototype microcar with an up and over door.  Because of the Suez crisis he came back to England with his microcar project.  He had the body re-designed by Michelotti with 2 gull wing doors, but this proved to be too expensive to produce.   A much modified open version went into production in conjunction with Meadows.  The engines used were Villiers 249cc and then 328cc mounted at the rear.   It was a four wheeler with a narrower track at the rear and no differential.  Top speed was reputed to be 65mph. In its short history  1957 – 1964, the Frisky Company had 5 different names and three different factory locations, starting in Wolverhampton and ending up in Kent. Do you own or have you recently spotted a Frisky Sports? Please let us know (click here)

text Michael E. Ware; photo courtesy Motoring Picture Library, Beaulieu.   

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