bond national rally 24-27th may 2013

[Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker)]

neglected red B.

It was parked to one side for much of the time, but joined the line-up just before the concours judging. Clive Steggel had bought it just before the rally and spent most of the day trying to get it to run. Later on he and several others managed to get it going, but it had no brakes and because the electrics were dodgy. Clive couldn't turn it off either so he spent about half an hour driving round and round hoping it was going to run out of petrol. There's a video of it here.

http://youtu.be/rEkgI-ZLkRc

There was an informative sign with it made by the previous owner Dafydd Williams that adds a bit more about the differences between A's and B's.

[richard]

i must have left a while before that in the torrential rain mid morning . it looks great fun and has wet my appetite ! of course the title of the youtube clip will be incorrect . Standard Mark A's were 122cc , most production ,and as far as i know ALL B's, were 197cc . so this B would in fact be 197cc . great fun . anyone thiking that Bonds were at all sluggish or boring would have their minds changed should they see the silly games at the Bond National - other clubs would envy it all !

[richard]

rusty chrome you have some great pics. of Bonds on your Flikr photostream could you post the pics of the polychromatic blue A, or B was it , at stafford 2010 ?

[Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker)]

thanks Richard, unfortunately I wasn't at the Stafford event. Here's one of a Mk B I took back in the 80s.

[richard]

Thanks that's the one I was after - didn't realise it was so old . 1985 it says in the windscreen

[g-o-g-g-o]

It's nice to see little ERN

[richard]

But you can't see his short fat hairy legs - or the story wot he wrote . Who owns little ERN now ? The number rings a bell