Moved Into The Garage
Posted 27 October 2013 - 09:00 AM
This advert is dated 1958.......there were also earlier versions of the Bond Minicar dating back to 1949, interesting to think Bond were so close to using the name 'Mini' for a small car long before BMC.........?
There was also a 'Minivan' version introduced in 1952.
http://microcarmuseu.../bond-mk-f.html
The Bond Minicar. Three wheeler. Hardtop convertible coupe 2 to 3 seater. 85 M.P.G. 50 M.P.H. £5 Tax.
Advert Museum:
http://www.historywo...1=Transport&l2=
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 27 October 2013 - 02:06 PM
Uncle Cooperman, Voted Mr TMF 2011
Posted 27 October 2013 - 02:14 PM
I drove one a short distance once - what a heap of junk!
Mini Mad
Posted 27 October 2013 - 07:22 PM
Moved Into The Garage
Posted 16 October 2016 - 09:55 PM
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 17 October 2016 - 09:31 AM
Many years ago when I was just starting to get interested in cars, especially 'old' cars, I was offered a Bong Bug for £100 as a rolling chassis... Everything was there that should've been, except for the engine and gearbox as that got removed and somehow lost....?
Was planning on fitting a MG Metro Turbo engine into it, but Dad said no.... so it never got bought... dunno whatever happened to it...
Uncle Cooperman, Voted Mr TMF 2011
Posted 17 October 2016 - 10:12 AM
Ah, yes, the Bond Bug! It was styled by Ogle Designs who did the Ogle Mini.
A friend of mine (a Mini enthusiast) who had an auto-cross Mini 1275 was a senior guy there and he had one on test which he invited me to drive as part of the testing.
I described it as the 'ultimate wedge of terminal understeer' in the wet, and a 'rollover looking for somewhere to do so in the dry'.
With a Metro Turbo engine, as suggested above, it would have gone even more quickly either straight on at the first corner, or straight onto its roof. Anyway, there would soon have been one less (hooray) 
.
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 17 October 2016 - 10:30 AM
The Ogle Mini is where I think Austin got its design from for the Allegro....
Uncle Cooperman, Voted Mr TMF 2011
Posted 17 October 2016 - 02:48 PM
That's an interesting thought. One can see the similarity, but I don't think Ogle design had any input to the All-agro styling.
The Allegro was a nice looking car. What a pity it was such a poor car to own and drive. The Vanden Plas with that silly looking grille was something else though.
Ogle Design, based in Letchworth, did some very interesting work. They did the original Reliant Scimitar styling, plus the project Lucas Electric Taxi in 1974. David Ogle, who started the company, was sadly killed in an Ogle Mini on the A1 just north of Hatfield.
Learner Driver
Posted 17 October 2016 - 03:56 PM
I will defend the Austin Allegro bec et ongles (en français dans le texte). I was responsible for the Allegro Launch (in 1973-74 ???) for British Leyland Belgium. We corrected the Hydrolastic suspension before the launch, we got rid of the Morris Marina overstock in the dealers network (another model which deserved a better success) and I made a launch package for the Dealers network. After this I started the launch of the Triumph Dolomite Sprint with an ambitious racing program (inspiring other countries such as France and Nederland. When Jean-Pierre Jaussaud (winner of the 24 Hours of Le mans) said that the greatest race in all his life was in Pau with a Dolo Sprint he made my day. I will never regret my work for BL in the seventies. It was my best time in business. I am sure that with another management (I never was able to cope with Lord Stokes) BL would probably still exist today. Seneffe was the best assembly plant of the BL Group.
In the next few months I will move for the rest of my life to co. Kerry, Ireland and start a small collection of BMC and Leyland cars. I will be back in my twenties again.
Mich' the Belgian.
Moved Into The Garage
Posted 17 October 2016 - 05:52 PM
Many years ago when I was just starting to get interested in cars, especially 'old' cars, I was offered a Bong Bug for £100 as a rolling chassis... Everything was there that should've been, except for the engine and gearbox as that got removed and somehow lost....?
Was planning on fitting a MG Metro Turbo engine into it, but Dad said no.... so it never got bought... dunno whatever happened to it...
You might like this Turbo Hayabusa powered Bond Bug, I spotted at the Brooklands Mini Day earlier this year...... 
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Edited by mab01uk, 17 October 2016 - 05:58 PM.
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 17 October 2016 - 06:00 PM
I bet thats a ruddy handful to drive LOL
One Carb Or Two?
Posted 17 October 2016 - 06:34 PM
Just been watching a few clips on YouTube with the above Bug.... It looks to be ruddy quick and very stable.... 
Uncle Cooperman, Voted Mr TMF 2011
Posted 18 October 2016 - 02:05 PM
Speeding Along Now
Posted 19 October 2016 - 09:56 AM
RODNEY....YOU PLONKER!!!
Some guy had a Bond in our street years back,he used to open the bonnet and KICK START IT???
Edited by Scousemouse, 19 October 2016 - 10:02 AM.
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