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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on April 02, 2013, 08:09:38 PM
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The Tourer project has started
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I think that the MkG tourer is the best looking car of the later Bond models and will be a lot easier for you to restore than your Gordon and Pifel. My only concern would be the fact that you are restoring three cars concurrently now. Will you ever finish one? ;D
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Good point Bob the Gordon would be nice to see finished
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only working on the Bond as the parts came up and had to be collected dismantled and stored, meanwhile during my week off Gordon still resides at nightschool and i cannot access until the 15th . what am i to do? tiling, shopping, paint the bathroom , etc. etc. don't blame me for it . anyway i am unfortunately not working on 3 cars ! i am working on 4 ! Gordon, Bonds A and G and the Bruetsch . i make my excuses regularly but all my cars have been bought very much as incomplete kits it has taken years for me to get the parts together. if i wasn't working very much full time then i would make much more progress - BUT be happy for me i am enjoying myself :)
those who say they are eager to see the Gordon may yet change their minds ;)
by the way don't you just love the lack of tyre tread on these old cars - bizarrely the spare was unused !!
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Sounds like your having FUN and that's what its all about
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Hmmm, interesting number plate! :) Not seen one with a 6 & 3 looking exacly like that before. I can't quite see from here but is it the actual period-from-1965 original plate or a fairly modern repro plate? Is there a makers name on it?
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Time was the G steel panelling was available. I could point you at a donor MkG car or two. The danger is that they become cars 5 and 6. With a reasonable donor the project ought to be a simpler sourced job than doing rarities. Looking at it another way an Estate rear end could be made into a trailer.
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Well it might well turn up at a car BOOT sale . Sorry stuart the plate came with v5 on the main car. I suspect very modern . You are welcome to it if of interest .The number itself is my local area HF wallasey. They made Mark Gs for several years but all the Tourers are C reg so nice. My car was the last twin engined car off the line
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As already said, so long as you are enjoying it thats all that matters. I have to focus on one at a time. If I dont I get bogged down and lose momentum.
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get a jolt from your electrode bob ;)
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Ah, Boris Pickett and Crypt-Kickers coming in there. Hmm, does that mean we can call a certain someone Boris Purton? Probably not as he is not a Bobby as Pickett was. Sounds to mayoral too.
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get a jolt from your electrode bob ;)
Ha!! I would do but I just sold it to a nice man in Bognor Regis.
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Wasn't it the Crypt kicker five?
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It might well have been thinking about it. A one hit wonder that has been a hit a few times.
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it was 5 but they got bogged down and were heading for an early grave . cut down to 3 and then lost momentum
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Cryptic Trickery
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Hmmm, interesting number plate! :) Not seen one with a 6 & 3 looking exacly like that before. I can't quite see from here but is it the actual period-from-1965 original plate or a fairly modern repro plate? Is there a makers name on it?
I found this picture somewhere on the net a year or two ago. I don't know anything about the car, whether the boot comes from it or a number plate has been swapped somewhere sometime, but some of the later Mark G saloons did have boots as well as the tourer.
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yep thats it before i bought it !! matt white with matt black roof,bumpers and all chromework - lovely , it still looks the same or did until this morning when i got the roof , side windows and tail door off . later saloons did have boots with a very short panel before the hardtop roof began .
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another small step forward, yes i know it's the next project , in order to tidy up the garage and garden i cut the old inner wings to the tourer profile so that i could position the rear boot panel in situ and see whats to do later on .
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I was sort of expecting bob, if no-one else, to comment on what else was in the garage . Perhaps its not recognisable to anyone
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I just turned the light on..........................
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Gordon bodytub underside bracing frame members? 8)
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Nice one barry - and the other pic ?
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Looks like a can of WD40?
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Looks like a can of WD40?
;D
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But stoopid
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...Yes it is stoopid.
But it is also verrry interrresting.
;D
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Richard - won't Stan throw you out of the Bond Owners Club for cutting a Bond in half?
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i didnt cut one in half ! but i cut a little weeny piece off - ok off each side :)
strangely Stan also modified an F saloon into an F Tourer . Stan can be misunderstood he is a great Bond enthusiast , i don't think he objects per se about modifying , but scrapping yes ! i am with him there, and he likes them to be used and you can't knock that either .
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How could Stan disapprove of bonding a Bond back together. Its the ultimate in Bonding, yet the owners are not stuck up! I think your only prob might be he might have a proof as to why the Bonds were superior to the Gordon. He is always ready with his facts and experience.
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who on earth said Bonds were superior to Gordons
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Vernons? Onslow? Geoffrey Hughes RIP? The Gordon Highlanders unofficial mascot, Champ? That little guy who knows the answer to everything at Beaulieu when he is trying to buy a rare part cheap and attempts to distract you from the deal, yeah you've met him.
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yes i know i have much more important jobs to do but again as a bit of garage tidying i removed the aluminium standard Bond Mk G bonnet and trial fitted a fibreglass , just on this model , G Tourer bonnet - this has the bulge to accommodate the supercharger - i think ;)
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Looks well. It always looks like it should be the base of a large Sphinx or something. No idea where the idea came from but it kind of works with the car.
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Heres how it should look - one day ;)