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[Doug Nye]

https://revslib.stan...log/xf647fq0600

 

DCN  

[Catalina Park]

Bond.

[ensign14]

Can't be, it's no. 3, not 007.

[Rob G]

That's a strange name for a car that looks like half of it fell apart.

[Terry Walker]

Front wheel drive anyway. You can see the drive shafts.

 

It seems amazing to me, but there's a bloke here in Perth Western Australia who owns a Bond Bug. Orange as a McLaren, (or an orange), but minus the powerr, handling and performance. Cute as a bug, mind you.

[Rupertlt1]

See: http://bondcars.net/Racing%20cars.htm RGDS RLT

[Tim Murray]

... and also:

http://www.500race.o...arques/Bond.htm

[Doug Nye]

Yes - interesting little muthas aren't they...  DCN

[Roger Clark]

The caption says it is Mallory Park.  Is that right?  I didn't think those cars were racing that late.

[Ray Bell]

Originally posted by Doug Nye
Yes - interesting little muthas aren't they...  

Indeed they are...

Even just the wheels of the Type C are enough to make you take a second look. And one wonders what impact these things had on Colin Chapman when he was thinking about the 25.

[DogEarred]

Can't quite remember the driver's name but didn't he invade Poland in 1939?...

[Adrian Beese]

I had a type F road car 3 wheeler when I was 16 all the handling properties of a land yacht. Very interesting in a cross wind as it had a flat bottom.  3 up you had to lean over like a bike to to move the weight to stop it picking a wheel up.

Got stopped by the police one night, the coppers face when i opened the bonnet to kick start the villiers motor was a picture. Happy days

[Charles Helps]

The caption says it is Mallory Park.  Is that right?  I didn't think those cars were racing that late.

Boxing Day 1957?  I haven't got a programme but the trees are leafless.  More photos from what I think is the same meeting here: https://revslib.stan...ory Park&utf8=✓ including another showing the engine bay of the Bond.

B. Harpin (VTJ 545) and Averil Scott-Moncrieff (NXA 7) in Lotus Sixes and possibly R Schofield in the aerodynamic Lotus Mk X-Bristol registered RN 66.  They all appear in the results on Martin Krecji's 1957 National Races for the BRSCC Boxing Day races. http://www.wsrp.cz/natgb1957.html#224

[Dutchy]

The FIII Bond is probably the car that James Conyers raced both in period and in historic racing. He altered it quite a lot and latterly raced it with a Triumph Twin engine. It has subsequently gone to a new owner who intended to restore the car to something nearer to original specification.

The Bond shown on the link to the 500 OA website was at one time owned by Robs Lamplough and survived in original form until quite recently when it was vandalised as per the recent photo. It is yet to turn a wheel in anger as far as I know.

[Rupertlt1]

Updating the link at Post #1:

 

https://library.revs...ory-park/357820

 

Now what is this at Stapleford Hill Climb, 17 October 1954?

 

https://library.revs...ll-climb/404857

 

RGDS RLT

[Michael Ferner]

Isn't that a Kieft badge?

[dgs]

Updating the link at Post #1:

 

https://library.revs...ory-park/357820

 

Now what is this at Stapleford Hill Climb, 17 October 1954?

 

https://library.revs...ll-climb/404857

 

RGDS RLT

The picture of car at Stapleford Hill Climb (17-10-1954) is I believe the Smith Special. Same picture is shown in A-Z Racing Cars by David Hodges.

No 1 entry at event was Ken.Smith (Smith)

[nicanary]

Just came on here to say the same. It's a Smith Mk III.

[D-Type]

Which car are we talking about?
The car at top left in the link in post #1 is a Crosley hotshot.  https://exhibits.sta...log/dy278dt9382