Great cause Marty and Julie. My wife and I have spent many days at Peter Mac. She was diagnosed with AML back in 2017 and we spent 12 months living in North Melbourne just across the road. Nothing but praise for the Drs and Nurses at Peter Mac, they are life saving angels 😉❤

We sure miss you. Hope every thing is ok with you all

Its always good to see a wife get involved with her man's projects or hobbies, of course and vice verse.

We miss you Marty!!! Hopefully all is well and you and Julie are enjoying a nice relaxing well deserved vacation...

The Bond of ‘Bond Bug’ refers to Lawrence ‘Lawrie’ Bond, an engineer from Preston, Lancashire, who built the first prototype of a series of economical three wheeled cars which motorists could drive on a motorcycle licence, rather than a full driving licence. The Bond Bug was designed by Tom Karen, whom Reliant had commissioned. See the bottom of this post for some interesting info! It was a foray into a sporty model microcar aimed at younger drivers rather than the standard designs which Reliant had been producing. It was originally to be called the Reliant Rogue, but Reliant felt the look and name might spoil their brand so they never released the Rogue. Eventually Reliant bought out Bond Cars and their chief engineer, John Crosthwaite, designed a new chassis. The Bond Bug was very quick compared to other vehicles but UK purchase tax (the precursor to UK VAT) underwent several reductions which meant that it was possible to have a four wheeled vehicle for only a few pounds more, literally less than £10! The Bond Bug production ended with little fanfare however, the vehicle has since gained cult status since then. Tom Karen designed Luke’s landspeeder in Star Wars IV: A New Hope. The vehicle was built on the chassis of a Bond Bug. Angled mirrors concealed the wheels.

I would have thought that someone with such delicate fingers as Julie would have used a pair of gloves to protect her beautiful nails. 😂

Julie is an absolute angel for encouraging and supporting you. You hit the lottery there, no doubt. not convinced alll the shots of Julie's hands are Julie, tbh though. Lmaooooo

Marty....here's hoping your absence is a well earned respite. Thank you for the hilarious posts these past years. Sending Texas greetings to you and family

From Memphis, Tennessee. Your fans in Elvis’ home town hope all is well with you and your family during these strange days.

Marty and Julie, in those difficult time with the virus, your sens of humour is much appreciated, well done!!!

Aw, hope Julie is well. Always enjoy your videos, Marty. I'm not even a car guy really, but there's just something so chill about watching people fix these.

I'll thank Julie on this one for all the effort she put in and of course the patience that Marty had to show awhile; stay blessed you lot, we need more models done by you together.

These are beautiful customizations Marty and Julie. I won’t say which one I like best but I will say that Marty, you’ve taught Julie very well; maybe a little bit TOO well 😉. My wife and I will keep Julie in our prayers - for her continued health. I hope you are both enjoying your new diggs in the outback.

Marty are you alright, haven't heard from you in a while?

Marty and July warmest thank you to you both and best of wishes .

6:59 It is a probe used to detect live electrical circuits. To use it, you place the probe end on a suspected live connection and touch the metal top to complete the circuit. If the circuit is live, an LED in the probe casing will shine.

Way to go Marty and Julie! Both cars turned out great. Great cause and very personal one too.

Wow Marty , it’s been a month with no videos. No pressure to produce one , I like everyone else hope that you and the family are all well mate. All the best, Ian

I actually originally sent that VW Beetle to Corrie, never really thought i'd see it ending up like this! XD Really awesome work Marty and Julie!

Thanks for a great video and cause. 18 years ago I too was diagnosed with breast cancer. After a lumpectomy and radiation I was in remission for 11 years. And it came back... as triple neg. After a mastectomy and chemo, I'm cancer free again. for 6 years! Remember... we can live without boobs! Go pink! And all the wonderful doctors in the world.

I didn't think Marty was that bad with a spray can! Even Julie got some black satin paint on her hands.

Top man - I would say that the sense of humour is still very English, deadpan - but you can still almost hear the wink in the voice. Love the classic visual jokes too. Thanks for the entertainment in these stupid hysterical times Marty ;0)

How wonderful that your wife gets involved in the hobby

Hope everything's all right with you, Julie, and Kevin...little concerned we haven't heard from you.

Challenge well met! My heart to Julie, I have gone through a mass of treatments myself, and my thanks to you for the support you give - I fully believe that half of meeting head on and overcoming this disease is the support one receives from loved ones. So my hat's off to you both, and thank you for another wonderful makeover!

Marty..... Just got the BOND BUG!!!! You did a magnificent restoration and it was an honor to win!!! I bid the same amount on Julie’s but someone beat me out.

Great work, for an extremely good cause. I hope Julie is doing well. That looks a fantastic hospital. A teacher at my secondary school, in the mid 1970's had a Bond Bug. At the time, it was like nothing else on the road. They are seen nowadays as being tremendously cool.

Beautiful cars and Beautiful cause.. It was a rare treat to see Julie design a car, great job Julie! Marty, well as always “ I bow 🙇‍♀️ to you”! One more thought, perhaps Kevin would be willing to design a car some day that would also be a treat! 🐨

Well done Marty and Julie. Thank you for sharing your story with us all. Stay safe and well.

Awesome job Julie and Marty they both look fantastic 👍👍😊

Very cool builds and glad to hear that Julie is getting good care there. Best wishes with the sale and thanks for sharing this bit of your lives with us.

Well done Marty and mrs. Marty. Love your sense of humor. These turned out fantastic. Marty, tell your wife she has beautiful hands. Stay safe.

Marty's shopping list: transparent silicone glue, a blue toothbrush and a bar of pink chocolate (for Julie)

Very nice restoration marty. Also its cool that you had your wife involved with this makeover. Made in England and im happy with that!!

One of your best video’s. Thanks Marty and Julie.

Omg... Julie's hands. Marty I don't know how you get away with that. You must have given her a bribe. That made me fall off my chair 😂😂😂😂 Her real hands are awesome, love the tats Julie! Would love to ear the story behind them. There is always stories behind tattoos.

It took me a second to realize who Julie referred to as "Martin"!

Dear Marty... Marty's Matchbox Makeovers is to me, is like a medicine. First it was like a pill a day. Gradually the dosage increased. Now I'm like a pillpoper, the medicine is almost over.

Massive laugh at 11.55 lovely shade of nail Varnish Julie, I love your makeovers, but your jokes are the cream on the top!

I really like Julie's contribution.. hopefully she will do more models in the future

As a modeller, if you spray the wheel centres pink/gold/silver first, then mask the centres with a circle of tape, spray the wheels black, then when it’s dry, take the tape off and ‘pinwash’ black into the wheel centres to make all the detail stand out - voila! Perfect.

Missing you and your antics!

Beautiful job on both! Great job Julie. So good to see you

Brilliant restorations mr and mrs matchbox makeover and a wonderful thought for the proceeds. Great video

Ok Ok , not going there . AWESOME work as always , best PINK ever . Pink takes the show . Mike Espo.

Great job 👍... I love the fact that Julie did one... It looks really good... You did a good job too... Stay safe and best wishes to you and your family and Kevin... I have family members that are cancer survivors... Love from Fernley,Nevada USA...

Good show to the both of you, and Julie should guest star more often! The spray paint ended up looking pretty darn good on those models once they were dressed up a bit.

😅🤣😅🤣😂🤣😅. You bring humor to your restorations.

Great job lovely to see you both in the video

A lovely pair of Bugs. Fantastic models for a fantastic cause. My fun fact about the Bond bug is the engine and frame was used for Luke’s Landspeeder in A New Hope.

Cracking as ever! Regarding yellowing windscreens though - I’m sure somebody’s told you this already, but you can restore yellowing plastic by putting it in a 12% solution of ordinary peroxide (you can buy a big bottle cheaply online - food grade is best). Bung it in a jam jar fully immersed and leave it out in the sun all day. The peroxide reacts to light and removes the yellow! Works with clear and white plastic and some coloured plastics (blue has trouble if I remember). Lego and action figure collectors use this trick all the time.

Julies pink bug is my favorite of the two of them because the flowers are like her own signature. I really enjoyed seeing her work on a Matchbox project this time and hearing her beautiful voice had to have been my favorite part of the video. I actually smiled the whole time. She should narrate children's stories. Love you, Julie!

Keep making me laugh in these trying times and EXCELLENT videos👍🐨🐨

The Bond Bug is a small British two-seat, three-wheeled automobile which was designed by Tom Karen of Ogle Design for Reliant Motor Company, who built it from 1970 to 1974, initially at Bond Cars Ltd factory, but subsequently at Reliant's Tamworth factory. It is a wedge-shaped microcar, with a lift-up canopy and side screens instead of conventional doors.

Beautiful buids marty and Julie. Thanks for sharing

Named after Laurie Bond, the designer and builder of the original Bond minicar. Their early iterations of the minicar had a kickstarter accessed through the front bonnet. You poked your foot into the engine bay to kickstart the Villiers engine. Luxury indeed. I had one of the fairly early models and I wish I still had it now. Not a pleasant car to drive, but it was wheels if one only had a motorcycle licence...

It is so personal. It happened to my great aunt. Sometimes, you make the best of how great things are!

Great cause Marty. I hope your wife is better now and those are only check ups. Thanks for all you do.

Lol Great video mate. My favorite has to be the Beetle. Thanks for that Julie. All the best to both

Ah ha ha ha! You got me on the Julie thing!! Wouldn’t want her to punch me. Lol then it really was her... fun stuff, Kids! Glad you’re doing well, Julie!! ✨❤️✨

Wow! Julie did those windows like she had been doing this for years! LMAO... Great stuff! Great casting choices and a fun video as always. Thanks for helping support breast cancer awareness!

Bond Bug Designed by Tom Karen of Ogle design who designed for Reliant. Reliant bought Bond Motor Cars and this is where the Bond name came from.

Pinkies out when polishing windscreen. Perfect form.

Hi Marty, It was called a Bond Bug because it was originally built at the Bond Cars Ltd factory at Preston for Reliant who made other 3 wheel cars like the Reliant Regal and Robin. But it eventually moved to Reliant's Tamworth factory.. It came in 2 engine sizes. Firstly 700cc and then 750cc.

Great job guys fan bloody tasic 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇦🇺

Both models turned out great - Congrats and Good luck Julie

Great job u too. Love both pink cars. Well done

you guys are awesome together you should do more build together. I am glad like my friend things turned out good for u julie. this is a great cause and you both did awesome jobs on your builds. hope all is well with you down under from canada. take care and stay safe

Well done Marty and Julie!

awsome job juile and marty

The nail polish color - thumbs up!

Marty, you have a great woman in Julie. Amazing she is involved and interested in your hobby. I wish her good health......I was unaware she had breast cancer. Great video!!!!

Is it me or has Julie gained some weight in the hands and hairy arms during lockdown?

Great job Julie! Such a good job that MAYBE Marty could take you for a manicure later... Not that you need it, just a reward from hubby for doing a fantastic job...

Julie you're an absolute gem!!

Two great makeovers Marty and a very worthy cause indeed, hope the sale goes well.

Enjoyed the video, looks like you guys had fun with these, you know I just did a restoration on a Volkswagen bug a week or two ago and it has flowers on it it was not easy finding flower stickers that would work for the car, your decals work very well, I appreciate your cause for breast cancer I've lost family to it, y'all have a good one.

My, my, Julie, what big, strong hands you have...! Thanks for the Video, Folks. Stay Safe!

Bomd were a microcar manufacturer, who were purchased by Reliant. The Bug was the very last car with the Bond name, and used Reliant Regal running gear, a tini 700 cc engine. All were orange, and on the real car, the doors were canvas. The body was GRP on a steel chassis. The club turbed up near me recently, about 30 of them buzzing Round

I think that VW Beetle is actually Herbie the Love Bug from the films and that version was at Monte Carlo. Julie, whwn we first see her hands, has thick haifr wrists, fat fingers and no tattoos but that changes very quickly , as we later see. Bond Buggies were made by Reliant using the Bond name after they took over Bond (formerly Sharps) in 1969.

Love the makeovers, Julie and Marty! ✨ A wonderful cause too.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Julie, best wishes with your treatment and recovery. Love seeing you in the videos with Marty. He’s really lucky that you’re such a good sport. Thank you both for all you do. 👍🏼🤘🏼😎 🌸👛👚

A fantastic double up although the varnish was mega thick lol. All the best to Julie and thanks for the awesome makeovers

Absolutely love your clean dad humor, Marty. And your craft is amazing too.

Awesome video Marty and Julie, Julie you did very well on your bug

Great job! And Bless Julie.

Great job Julie! Love your tattoos!

I’m glad she’s doing well! 👍👍🤘✌🏻

Many years ago, one of our neighbours owned a Bond Bug. I thought it looked incredibly cool, parked outside on the road.

In 1985 I drove a pink VW Beetle. Except for the flowers, it looked exactly like the model in the video.

Julie has interesting hair on her arms and her tattoos can disappear and reappear. 😁 😁😁 Well... Anyway, it's a great thing to watch you both working on these wonderful models. I personally think that both models look great. I really hope that they will fetch a good price at the auction. After all it is for a good cause and I keep my fingers crossed for both of you. Thanks for sharing. I wish you both and the team behind the scenes a nice weekend and stay healthy. Of course also a big greeting to the most famous koala of Australia, Kevin 🐨 😁👍🏼🇦🇺👋🏼🇩🇪👍🏼😁 P.S. Keep up the good work and it would be nice to see you working together on a project again in the future. COO-EEE from northern Germany 👍🏼🇦🇺 Paul

I’m glad you’re doing this it’s a great cause my mom is a breast cancer survivor as well !!!

"Sleazy Spacey showed me his Clock.". Lol..... I had to rewind and re-read that 5 times........ Lmao Beautiful Job as usual.

Used to see quite a few Bond Bugs in the UK in the late 70's. Always orange.

Marty, you are such a kind and considerate man to have treated Julie to a lovely manicure.

Love pics of Julie. Quite hairy. Just admit it Marty. You were just accessing your inner Priscilla.

As we say in Cornwall in the UK PROPER JOB nice one Julie

It's strange how memory works. I certainly remember Roger More opening up one of these and clambering out, raising his eyebrow as he did so. Must have just been in my sandpit though! Great make overs - both of them. Julie really deserves some extra pampering at the manicurists after that, bless her. Both of her!

Julie you are an inspiration! What a warrior you are, and to have to put up with that Marty guy all day.😅 Honestly you both are very lovely people and a great couple.

Nice to see a Reliant on the vids there :) I am just off out to change the exhaust on my MK2 Reliant Robin which is the nephew shall we say of the Bug, the Bug was a sideways development of the old Regal sharing most of the undercarriage of the Regal and engine and not a lot of people know too that Luke Skywalker's land cruiser was built on a Bug chassis and running gear. A shame the three wheelers were never popular in Oz, there was a push to get them going in the US with the strange Reliant Zoe but Australia was not keen at all. The Bond Bug very nearly came back at the end of the last century Jonathon Haines running Reliant was pushing hard for a modern Bug in 3 and 4 wheel form using the Fox running gear for the 4 wheeler but sadly his plans came to a couple of prototypes then Reliant stopped trading not so long after so ended Britain's last mass producing car maker.

They’re both beautiful!