Peel Trident Micro Car – 1 of just 45 – heading for auction – could fetch £100k PLUS

A Peel Trident Micro Car – successor to the Peel P50 – is going up for auction with RM Sotheby’s and is expected to sell for over £100,000.

The Peel P50 was thrust in to the spotlight ten years ago when Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear team featured the quirky little Micro Car – by then more than 40 years since it went out of production – showing it prowling the corridors of the BBC, and so small it could be picked up and wheeled along.

That profile has seen interest in the little Peel Micro Car soar, so much so that the Peel P50 has been selling at prices way over £100k, and Peel P50 production was restarted five years ago.

But it wasn’t just the Peel P50 which went back in to production, but the ‘Sports’ version too – the Peel Trident – a car James May though looked straight out of the Jetsons.

With its clear plastic bubble roof, space for two (just – if you’re small enough), glass-fibre shell and a 49cc DKW engine with just 4.1bhp, the Trident was launched in 1965 as a ‘Shopping Car’.

Just 45 Peel Tridents were built, and now one is going up for auction at R M Sotheby’s Monterey sale at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in August, and although it’s being sold with no reserve it is expected to fetch over £100k.

The Trident on offer was sold new in the UK and bought by its current owner in 2014 as a fully restored car, and although it’s now in the USA its original UK registration is still with the car.

It’s a quirky little oddity – and never really sold when it was new – but over £100k does seem on the large side of large.

The R M Sotheby’s Monterey auction at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is on 18-19 August 2017.