Chris Lawrence's initial attempt at a rear engined, mini-based sports car, which he used to hone the chassis and set-up of his Deep Sanderson 301, was clothed in this rather strange body created by Charlie Williams at W&P. The story of the early stages of the cars' development is covered in great depth in "Morgan Maverick", Chris Lawrence's book (pub. Douglas Loverage Publications 2008) in Chapters 6 and 7. At page 73 of "Morgan Maverick", Chris says:

"Our first attempt at the bodywork, built by Charlie Williams, was not very clever. Ugly but functional, you might say ... With a low seating position and the high Mini engine riding on top of its gearbox, the top of the tail section was level with the top of the windscreen. So we had large scallops down the tail on each side for rearward visibility, only possible with mirrors. This odd little car was immediately christened "the perfume delivery wagon" ...

At page 96 of "Morgan Maverick", Chris says:

"the prototype was a perfectly awful little car, being much too flimsy for purpose, and adorned with a truly ugly two seat body ... we had the temerity to take this car to the Nurburgring to compete in the famous 1,000 kms race. We had a torrid time with the inspectors, who could clearly see that the thing hardly ought to be on the road ..."

However, from this ugly duckling came the beautiful and successful production 301, also with a restyled body built by Charlie Williams from a clay model.

The "perfume delivery wagon" is not known to have survived, but if you have any information about it, please get in touch.