Bond Bug Convoy
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Matty3

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1,244 posts

105 months

Sunday 19th June 2022
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Was parked in Matlock Bath yesterday and saw a sight I will never ever see again.. smile

at least 20 Bond Bugs in convoy. Bought a big smile to my face and everyone else present. Looked like one big Orange Caterpiller. Am sure one of the Bugs sported 4 wheels?

Bravo to them all smile

Equus

16,980 posts

122 months

Sunday 19th June 2022
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Matty3 said:
Am sure one of the Bugs sported 4 wheels?
A 4-wheeled version of the design was manufactured as a kit car, by a company called WMC in the 1990's (I think that Reliant also made a 4-wheel prototype of the Bug, before they built the Kitten, but it never made production).

VSKeith

1,572 posts

68 months

Sunday 19th June 2022
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Marvellous - was this one there?

https://youtu.be/1tUy78T8Euo?t=420


Chubbyross

4,812 posts

106 months

Sunday 19th June 2022
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VSKeith said:
Marvellous - was this one there?

https://youtu.be/1tUy78T8Euo?t=420
That is utterly insane! Thank god people and their creations like that exist.

unpc

2,979 posts

234 months

Sunday 19th June 2022
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When I was a kid I was obsessed with the Bond Bug. What a dhead I must have been/am smile

tonyvid

9,886 posts

264 months

Friday 1st July 2022
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I had one! I bought it when I was 16, completely restored it over the next 18months, ran it for about the same and then sold it at the Knebworth Classic Car Show where it went to Germany. One sold recently in the high £20ks! Very marmite but I've never had a car that I was asked about so much as that one.

For all the jokes, it was stable, felt fast as f*** and really good fun unless it was snowing and the front wheel is on the white bit left by all the other cars wobble . I saw one on a trailer behind a camper van last weekend and that's the first one in the flesh for about 5 years. They were rare to start with at about 2200 built, heaven knows how many are still on the road now.

aeropilot

39,211 posts

248 months

Friday 1st July 2022
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Chubbyross said:
VSKeith said:
Marvellous - was this one there?

https://youtu.be/1tUy78T8Euo?t=420
That is utterly insane! Thank god people and their creations like that exist.
Terrific biggrin

But why of why did the idiot making the film, or filming the runs at the strip, cut the film BEFORE the ET's came up on the timing screen banghead


Edit: found vids elsewhere on Yooftube...... 11.22 @ 117mph eekbiglaugh

And that's with a serious traction issue rofl





Edited by aeropilot on Friday 1st July 16:34

nismo48

6,038 posts

228 months

Friday 1st July 2022
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Bonkers and brilliant biggrin

VSKeith said:
Marvellous - was this one there?

https://youtu.be/1tUy78T8Euo?t=420

Mr Peel

598 posts

143 months

Monday 4th July 2022
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Brilliant. I was once asked to choose a 'winner' at a local classic car show when I worked for the local rag. I picked a Bug.