The Poni was a front-wheel-drive mini-jeep designed and built by V. G. Shander, a long-time reader of a home-builders' magazine, who described it to other amateur builders around 1991-92. Building it took six months, and it was in use for two seasons. He designed it for a family of five, with a large children's pram fitting into the cabin and two more children sitting at the sides of it. The…