What Pete Larson would not have known at the time was that Tony Divey had had a stroke and was slowly slipping into Alzheimers. His production had virtually ceased and things were in a bit of a muddle. Tony told me several times that he couldn't keep track of things since he had had the stroke.

I think it was in 2004 that he offered me a left hand drive Triking that he had been building for an American customer that had "disappeared". I could well imagine that after goodness knows how long a delay his customer could have given up. I did think about it quite seriously (I had been looking at Triking in the early '90s) but in the end I decided that getting plates on it in Italy would be too difficult.

He was also looking at building 100 replica 3 wheelers with sliding kingpin front suspension and Moto Guzzi engines. A prototype was partially built but short sightedness by the Guzzi executive pretty much scuppered the idea. I know that somehow a well known Morgan personality was involved and was very abrupt and scathing in his remarks about Tony Divey.

Triking was eventually taken over by Alan Layzell who used to work with Tony. I hope he is doing well with it in this very difficult times.


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