trigger Posted November 8, 2009 Posted November 8, 2009 Just looking at the ad on ebay, It's done some miles since i saw it, It was at a show in West Bergholt which is near Colchester in Essex in 2008 and now it's Plymouth and now about to head to South Wales!, It can't be that bad!Oh and BTW It looks like you got a bargain if the sold prices of the other ones are anything to go by on ebay £5000 of one!
michiel Posted November 8, 2009 Posted November 8, 2009 What a great way to battle depression, fab purchase.
dollywobbler Posted November 8, 2009 Posted November 8, 2009 I do a lot of driving in unsuitable cars and it's only gone wrong once. Ok, so that was a Bond (the brakes locked up 2 miles into the journey) but sometimes you have to do these things.My most idiotic buy/drive was the H van. I'd sold my wonderful LDV beavertail to a chap in Staffs so put the Mini on the back of the LDV, drove from Northants to Staffs, drove the Mini up to Acrrington (in aquaplane conditions - exciting!) decided to buy the van, decided to drive the van back home, convoyed back down to Northants in more rain (the Mini really starting to struggle with damp dizzy, the H van threatening to throw its wiper blades away) and got back home rather late that evening. Cripes, what an adventure!! It was great and very uplifting. H vans don't really do more than 50mph and you soon learn to adapt to slower speeds.And it's bright orange, so no-one's got an excuse not to see you!
ChinaTom Posted November 8, 2009 Posted November 8, 2009 Vic Reeves mentions fondly his old man's Bond Bug in his autobiography, but I can't see how he and his sister can have sat in the back. Was there ever a "back"? I always assumed they were 2 seaters.
Wolseley1660man Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 That is a wonderful purchase. Really something else. Two videos posted by an owner (how are videos embedded here?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMUnWfHGgVY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kbtb8YJrHg Great stuff.
Station Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 I think it'd be better if you bought this in the summer. It'd be ace driving it home through dusk. I can't imagine a more horrible experience driving it through 5pm rush hour traffic through miserable cold fog and probably pissing down rain. I'd honestly just hire a small van and stick it in the back of that, just to be safe. How much is one of these by the way?
garethj Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 Inspired purchase!It's rwd and lighter than a Lotus, go home via the Nurburgring, you know it makes sense
nigel bickle Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 Spot on.Drive it.There's no other way.(Just join AA first....)
warren t claim Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 Fantastic purchase! I'm jealous!To bring it home why not engineer a small fault that the AA/RAC won't bother fixing at the roadside and get it recovered back to your address?
dollywobbler Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 Vic Reeves mentions fondly his old man's Bond Bug in his autobiography, but I can't see how he and his sister can have sat in the back. Was there ever a "back"? I always assumed they were 2 seaters.Obviously mistaken. It could have been a Bond 875 - they had a rear seat and a Hillman Imp engine at the rear. Exciting!
Richard Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 Up until the early 1980s it wasn't unusual for two children to share a front seat
FredTransit Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 It looks a laugh, but I wouldn't have one. I make it a personal rule not to drive anything that has half of the wheels and would fit in the back of my daily driver.
aled Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 i have to pick up an imp shortly the other side of the severn bridge on a large flatbed trailer, i am sure the bond will fit on as well if you can get it to there and i will transport home for you.
andrew e Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 Don't forget the stick for keeping the babes at bay you young stallion
Pete-M Posted November 9, 2009 Posted November 9, 2009 Drive it, ya big girls blouse.And fit a camera to it.... it'd be Autoshite / YouTube GOLD watching that thing wibble and weave its way across the bridge.I believe the trick with the old Reliant lump is to skim the head to within an inch of its life and shove double valve springs in while you're at it. I had a go in a Rebel a few years ago which had been tweaked so and it was somewhat startling.I was glad it had four wheels though.
ChinaTom Posted November 10, 2009 Posted November 10, 2009 Vic Reeves mentions fondly his old man's Bond Bug in his autobiography, but I can't see how he and his sister can have sat in the back. Was there ever a "back"? I always assumed they were 2 seaters.Obviously mistaken. It could have been a Bond 875 - they had a rear seat and a Hillman Imp engine at the rear. Exciting!Just re-read the chapter - my mistake. It was a Bond Minicar.Looks like fantastic fun that Bug. I'd love a ride in one.
Father Ted Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 Chicken Much orange fruity fun for the nice weather there. Now go out and fit a silly R1 donkey to it for even moAr lunacy.
Mash Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 Good job you don't have an inspection pit in your garage....
seth Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 Super! Now find a nice '60s housing estate and take a photo circa 1978 with Fiesta and Bond
trigger Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 its too orangey for crows!... That looks great fun!, You must lose the mud flaps asap though!, They must be a recent thing as it never had them when i saw it. Love the Mk 1 Festa also, I would love one of them.
michiel Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 Sensible move, non-sensible car so it evens out... love the bug!
Mr Lobster Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 Lovely car! Probably the best thing to get it transported really. It's not really the weather for long drives in three wheeled cars.
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