Very much enjoyed your write-up Nick. Although I had a M3W on order before they first came out I never took delivery for a variety of reasons. It did give me the three wheeler bug though and I subsequently owner a 1920 Darmont then a 1934 Matchless MX2 Supersport.
The bug now firmly implanted I decided I wanted a performance 3W and went down the route of a modern re-incarnation of an F2 Sports and bought a substantially assembled Malone Skunk. This is an equally rare vehicle as the Blackjack with I think maybe less than 10 vehicles assembled by the Malone father and son team in Devon, and a similar number of kits being sold.
My particular vehicle has a Yamaha Fazer 1000 engine tuned to produce around 155bhp and the current weight, unpainted but with just about all finished components on-boeard, is 370kg. It's rear wheel drive with output from the engine going through a Quaife reverse box, then a short prop shaft to a bevel box and finally I chain from this bevel box to rear wheel. I hope to have it finished by the summer and will try and provide an honest appreciation of it then.
Cheers
