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SOLVED! Guess what! #14 - Bond Bug 4-wheeled prototype
« on: December 04, 2008, 08:09:10 AM »
Time to give away some points. You know the drill - tell me the make and model of the car pictured below and you'll be awarded a point  :)
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Re: Guess what! #14
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2008, 10:29:05 AM »
Very similar to a Bond Bug.

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Re: Guess what! #14
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2008, 02:26:08 PM »
Very similar to a Bond Bug.

Good thinking :)
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Re: Guess what! #14
« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2008, 06:22:02 AM »
wmc - webster motor co ?

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Re: Guess what! #14
« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2008, 06:34:37 AM »
wmc - webster motor co ?

No. Actually, Artur Dent there has been right about it being a Bond. But what kind of it?
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Re: Guess what! #14
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2008, 01:28:02 PM »
I've found reference to it on this site http://www.bondbug.com/history/bond_bug_production_variations.asp but it doesn't give a different name.  ???

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Re: SOLVED! Guess what! #14 - Bond Bug 4-wheeled prototype
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2008, 10:11:30 AM »
Strange - I wrote an answer, but after moving the thread, it disappeared.
Anyway - you get the point. What I wanted to hear is that it's a factory-built (meaning Reliant) 4-wheeled Bond Bug prototype.
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Re: SOLVED! Guess what! #14 - Bond Bug 4-wheeled prototype
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2008, 12:14:19 PM »
Interesting that it seems to have doors - the bug had a lid which, if you were tall, could not be latched shut without compressing the occupants!
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