'World's smallest car' revealed

A car lover has made the world's tiniest motor from a Postman Pat children's ride. 47-year-old Perry Watkins said: "I searched on eBay for something suitable, and found a Postman Pat coin-in-the-slot children's ride from a vendor in Scotland.

"It was in non-operative order, but for what I had in mind, this was of no consequence as I only wanted the bare fibreglass body from the ride. This meant the unceremonious removal of Pat and his black-and-white cat Jess, the money box and sundry other bits and bobs."



He reinforced the shell with a steel frame and mounted the body on a powerful mini quad bike.

He added mirrors, windscreen wipers and washers, lights and indicators — and even faux racing exhaust pipes — over a seven-month period.



It runs on a nippy 150cc single-cylinder four-stroke engine, but at 39ins high and 26ins wide, six foot Perry has to perform a feat of contortionism to actually get into the vehicle.

But once in he can happily — and legally — zip along the highway along with all the normal traffic. Perry has previously entered the record books for having the world's lowest car — or Flatmobile as he calls it.