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Post by veg on Oct 22, 2020 22:50:49 GMT 1
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Post by tacky1 on Oct 22, 2020 23:53:12 GMT 1
Yes, YES!!! I would love that thing, f**kin blitz the neighborhood....  |
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Post by JonW on Oct 23, 2020 2:14:19 GMT 1
link dead for me...
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Post by veg on Oct 23, 2020 4:44:22 GMT 1
It’s a bond bug with an R1 engine conversion up for auction.
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Post by steve h on Oct 23, 2020 13:25:46 GMT 1
Bought it?.... in both meanings...
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Post by arrdy350 on Oct 23, 2020 17:19:34 GMT 1
Never heard of a bond bug before very interesting  Its like a gokart on steroids with a pocket rocket in the rear  |
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Post by veg on Oct 23, 2020 17:26:41 GMT 1
Awful mad things a mate of my older brother had one the motor used to smoke like a woodbine the thing was lethal around corners you actually had to lean out like a sidecar, it was slow, noisy,cold and handled like a pig on a roller skate and I love them.
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Post by donkeychomp on Oct 23, 2020 21:48:14 GMT 1
I love those things. Fetch a fortune now.
Alex
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Post by steve h on Oct 23, 2020 22:26:43 GMT 1
Have any of you ever been in one?? I have... and lived... or maybe I'm an ethereal spirit or something...
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Post by donkeychomp on Oct 23, 2020 22:31:23 GMT 1
There was a chap in Sunbury (near me) who used to slot a GSXR1100 lump into Smart cars. Saw one once as it screamed past me on a bypass. Kinda the same idea...brutally fast in a straight line but useless everywhere else. Bet that Bond Bug pulls some amazing wheelies though...
Alex
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Post by pedheadfred on Oct 23, 2020 22:40:38 GMT 1
Brefits garage on Nuthall road Nottingham were an agent for Reliant.
At the time I lived on Nuthall road just down from the garage.
Me and my kid brother used to walk to the shops and pass there but as a young boy they looked space ship like.
We thought they were Fantastic looking things, my Dad was mates of the garage owner and he gave us a run around the block in one.
We only touched 40mph on Western boulevard and 30mph on Nuthall road, but we thought we were flying 🤣
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Post by dusty350 on Oct 24, 2020 16:28:59 GMT 1
Hey Alex
You're not talking about Crabbie are you ? (smart car conversions)
Dusty
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Post by donkeychomp on Oct 24, 2020 21:47:48 GMT 1
Not sure of his name but the cars must have been mental.
Alex
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Post by dusty350 on Oct 24, 2020 21:57:02 GMT 1
Ian Crabb - 58, bald, skinny, mad as a box of frogs. Used to do some testing for Superbike mag years back. Used to live in Egham. Ended up in the Fire Service but got sacked for biting the cook !! Dusty |
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Post by donkeychomp on Oct 24, 2020 22:30:32 GMT 1
Haha! Sounds exactly like the right bloke for an insane Smart car to me...
Alex
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Post by cbm on Oct 25, 2020 9:10:42 GMT 1
Awful mad things a mate of my older brother had one the motor used to smoke like a woodbine the thing was lethal around corners you actually had to lean out like a sidecar, it was slow, noisy,cold and handled like a pig on a roller skate and I love them. If Aardy350 hadn't heard of a Bond Bug he's not gonna have a scooby what a Woodbine is  I've always really fancied one of the bike engined Smart Cars, I think it'd be like a 4 wheel version the Ducati Hypermotard I had for years, totally impractical for pretty much anything but absolute balls tingling fun |
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Post by donkeychomp on Oct 25, 2020 23:50:13 GMT 1
Yonks ago I had a Suzuki SC100 (whizzkid, remember them?). Tiny little thing but I bolted on a huge Weber and it would hit the ton. Lots of stuff on YT about them and some with R1 engines etc...sounds like a hoot!
Alex
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Post by veg on Oct 25, 2020 23:59:43 GMT 1
Mini Cooper (rover not bmw) 1.3 sport pack spent loads and loads of cash on it, loved it.
Remember being in France 1999 June d day celebrations car was red with Union Jack loved it raced a golf on the autoroute ( wasn’t a race she let me keep up) over 100 miles. Brilliant little motors I was big into my minis. Love small cars.
Would love a mini with a vtec fitted.
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Post by donkeychomp on Oct 26, 2020 0:30:31 GMT 1
I had a Mini. Well, a few but the last one in Nightfire Red with a 1380 fast road lump in it. 0-60 in maybe 5 seconds. Handled so well I never found it's limits. Top speed was only about 80 as it was geared purely for acceleration. Fantastic little cars. I'd have another but not one of the BMW ones thank you very much.
Alex
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Post by veg on Oct 26, 2020 0:34:05 GMT 1
Completely with you Alex still love them go carts with bags of character.
New mini just a bmw marketing exercise.
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Post by JonW on Oct 26, 2020 3:39:48 GMT 1
I was big into minis as well back in the day. I always thought id love another one, then my mate who owns a garage called me up and asked me to help him service the SUs on one. All good, lots of chat about how great they are showing the apprentices what a carb was etc. Hilarious asking there where the oil goes... they thought we were winding them up, like about blinker fluid etc. Pk, job done and we went to test it out. 2mins up the road i want out. That was enough for me. Too small and scary with that lack of safety, plus my mates driving (while great) isnt good as a passenger lol.
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Its like a gokart on steroids with a pocket rocket in the rear 
