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According to the Telegraph it is.

'Roy Campbell, will be taking his beloved Bug to King’s Cross for the twice-yearly Classic Car Boot Sale, alongside his ultra-rare Bond WB 120, a striking prototype coupé.'

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fcars%2Fclassic%2Fbond-bug-shape-things-come%2F

Hopefully that'll open, but if it doesn't use the 12ft.io proxy thing.

But it seems they're wrong & you're correct, it's a White & Best 120

https://drive-my.com/1963-wb-120-road-test/

 

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On 3/11/2023 at 4:19 PM, timolloyd said:

Allowing the Germans to build anything with tracks in the early 60s would have caused some nervousness, I suspect. 

Just to be pedantic, the first German-built Leopard tanks entered service in the mid-60s.  Presumably the allies were OK with it as long as they were pointing East.

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16 hours ago, barefoot said:

According to the Telegraph it is.

'Roy Campbell, will be taking his beloved Bug to King’s Cross for the twice-yearly Classic Car Boot Sale, alongside his ultra-rare Bond WB 120, a striking prototype coupé.'

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fcars%2Fclassic%2Fbond-bug-shape-things-come%2F

Hopefully that'll open, but if it doesn't use the 12ft.io proxy thing.

But it seems they're wrong & you're correct, it's a White & Best 120

https://drive-my.com/1963-wb-120-road-test/

 

Shock, horror. Newspaper prints fake news.

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On 3/8/2023 at 10:37 PM, RoverFolkUs said:

MK1 Honda CR-V's without a spare wheel or even the holder

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Saw one in a Sainsbury's car park this evening, in a very flat and faded red/pink

Wish I'd papped it now, struggling to find pictures online, it wasn't the MK2 like the one above, it was an old preface MK1 and it looked so wrong!

Saw one of these today in Mallaig in all places! It looked so... Wrong!

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Daihatsu TA-X80

1987 Daihatsu TA-X80 - Vintage Photograph 3178354 | eBay

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Two crucial things happened in early 1987. One, I was born, which is important for this story to exist. Two, the Daihatsu TA-X80 was unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show. Daihatsu still rolls out good stuff at what’s now called the Tokyo Auto Salon, rocking up in recent years with an array of kei cars cute enough to make you lose your actual mind. But back in the late ’80s, the combination of a threat of nuclear water and an asset price bubble that made people rich in Japan turned Daihatsu’s ambitions more seductive.


 

Daihatsu TA-X80 - All Car Index

Daihatsu TA-X80 - All Car Index

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The TA-X80, sadly, didn’t really feed into anything. It just appeared like a beautiful, bubbly mayfly and then was gone from the Daihatsu concept library in favor of things it might actually sell. Now, Daihatsu makes adorable tiny vans and kei cars—and while the TA-X80 wasn’t exactly big at 153 inches long—it is definitely a few sizes up on most of its 2021 siblings.

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Still, just look at it. Think of the sunset streaking pink across the sky, all 128 horsepower from its 1.0-liter, turbocharged V6 stretching like the shadows down the open road, the radio crackling to life in what passed for an infotainment deck back then, and an ’80s classic fills the interior as we drive into the night.

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