Car made from speedboat turned into Del Boy-style 'boatmobile'

The ‘boatmobile’, originally made for a spoof spy film in the 1960s, had been rotting in a lock up for 20 years.

But Shaun Atkinson from Blackpool bought and restored the car boat, coverting it into the old banger from Only Fools And Horses.

Atkinson has now made the boatmobile, one of only three known three wheeler boat cars, road legal after spending £2,000 on revamping the car.

‘My wife thinks I'm strange but I supposed you can't blame her because of what we drive around in,’ said Atkinson.

‘Sadly we can't take the car into the sea but that doesn't matter. Everyone keeps staring at us – so much so we might have the best tourist attraction in town.’