Trident Cars Ltd was a British car manufacturer between 1966 and 1974, and again after being restarted in 1976. The new company stopped production in 1977-78. Their first car, the prototype Clipper convertible, was based on a prototype TVR model which had two seater coupé steel and aluminium bodywork styled by Englishman Trevor Frost. This TVR Trident Coupé was shown at the 1965 Geneva Motor Show. Due to a financial crisis at the TVR company, the project passed instead to one of their dealers, W.J. (Bill) Last, who created a separate Trident Cars company to manufacture it using the premises previously used by him for making the Peel Viking Sport.