This strange go-cart-looking vehicle was intended to cross over minefields without detonating explosive devices. For this purpose, #Pookie was fitted with four Formula One tires procured by the #Rhodesian government after the South African Grand Prix in 1976.

The width of the tires was able to exert less ground pressure than a footprint, or a regular tire, enabling it to cross unharmed. The simple Volkswagen Kombi chassis was added with a super-structure V-hull cabin for one, and two rods equipped with metal detecting sensors.

There were 76 of these vehicles produced in the period between 1976 and 1979. Trevor Davies Engineering, the company responsible for the creation of this mine-clearing contraption claimed that none was ever destroyed by activating a mine. The vehicle saw extensive service in the Rhodesian civil war and was later used by the South African Police Force.

Proving highly effective in bypassing and detecting Soviet landmines, Pookie was reincarnated in 1999 by MineTech, a British company that deals in mine countermeasures. An unknown number of vehicles were transported to Afghanistan and Somalia to help with the de-mining process.