Pure fun! Morgan three-wheeler pics

Every extremity of the car is visible from the driver's seat " you really do fly it with the seat of your pants.

Every extremity of the car is visible from the driver's seat " you really do fly it with the seat of your pants.

This is the crew at Morgan Design who brought the classic three-wheeler back to life. They look quite sane, don't they?

A leather-padded cockpit complete with aircraft-style instruments (including a starter button that looks like a bomb release, complete with safety cover) adds to the open-cockpit flying feel.

The computer-genrated concept sketches show the three-wheeler in left-hand drive - it was always the intention to make it street-legal in the US.

Perhaaps the most amazing thing about this shape is how clean it is, given that HFS Morgan sketched the original more than a century ago.

The car weighs only 1100kg so performance - especially when you're sitting in an open cockpit only 150mm off the deck! - is electrifying: 0-100 in 4.5sec and a top speed of 185km/h.

The engine is a long-stroke, pushrod V-twin from custom builder S&S, churning out 85kW and loads of low-revving torque.

This deceptively simple shape still holds a number of long-distance speed records for one-litre cars set in the 1930's.