Rodney you dipstick.

Oh yes, big time!

@@francodelrio7989 It is the only fish that can survive by eating its own poop.

If Mr. Bean is bullying you, you gotta rethink your existence.

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Brilliant post. My 21E van saw fat Valerie in a starring role in the early/mid 70s. After, I owned a Bond Bug, having moved FV on. Sporty little number the orange bug.

Steering wheel glove is a nice colour to go with the wooden dashboard! Incidentally, would I be correct, in thinking this is actually filmed in Austria/Switzerland or Germany?

Good post. I had a 21E van. Great car.

Wow

Didn't the EU remove the advantage of being able to drive them on a motorbike licence as well, so hastening their demise?

Good post. But I think the bit about blanking off the reverse gear is an urban myth. Can you imagine the lunacy of it? I had a 21e van .

I’m pretty certain that you didn’t need to block off the reverse, but what about adding windows to the van? I added windows to mine and didn’t have to change any info on my log book…great urban myths though. Oh, and I put in an 8 track…beautiful!

me too

Same

@@John-ci2sd It is a shame that Reliant no longer exists these days

@@Emperor_and_King i own one

@@John-ci2sd what kind of model do you have?

Say that to the mr bean blue car

Well your scenery is better than south jakarta mate

Haha yes. I liked how it was the same colour as Del Boys van. 😄

@@shoot_the_glass5654 but this is beige it's not yellow

Well said.

Undertale AND Mr Bean reference nice

@@astrochaos4182 thx

Now that would be quite the crossover. Make it a triple one: ever since seeing the Top Gear episode about the Reliant, my headcanon is that Jeremy Clarkson is the Reliant's driver.

Jeremy Clarkson likes Reliants.

Jonathan Rainey if you want the best’ Ens and you don’t ask questions than brother I’m your man

'Cause where it all comes from is a mystery, like the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea

Have you actually been to the UK in the last 50 years? That's like saying everyone in the UK speaks the same, or we all live in castles or tiny cottages with thatched roofs. Of course SOME roads are narrow, just like everywhere else has some.

Totally agree! Nowadays we have stupid SUV’s which take up too much room on our small British roads. We ain’t America! The majority of British people shouldn’t need big cars like the yanks do. The Reliant 3 wheeler was the perfect size.

Ofah never destroyed this things image it was just a funny running joke but I do agree jezzas antics has probably made people think these are more dangerous than they are.

Why, engines like high revs

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@@sanandreas4204 thats wonderful bro 😀

The video was recordet in the canton of Appenzell Ausserhoden in Switzerland. Greets to Indonesia.

@@jocam5515 thank you for the information sir, greetings too for switzerland 😄

When I picked up my Reliant Robin, a year ago now, I drove it back from Bodmin Moor Cornwall, at 60 with no problems, tell I got too London and the damb vacuum tube came of the advanced retard because it was perished due to old age, but it's fine now lol

That's pretty cool never knew about them. Looks like they used some Bond Microcar parts too.

Same I have a 1972 reliant regal it's white I always used the choke my regal is a supervan not a saloon

That does sound annoying. When someone thinks you're lying even though the car is factually a Reliant

Was it the one in the video? Or a different Mk5 Van?

Yes. It's a british car (rhd) driving on swiss roads (lhd)

The van in the vid is Silver streak which suggests that it is the 21E model

They do. Aging Wheels recently bought a Reliant Robin MK3 and he's American, or if you want an American 3 wheeler there is the Wildfire WF650-C.

@@carlitoon9451 the wildfire is Chinese

@@carlitoon9451 also they are ripoff of the reliant

@HouseOutSideLight they look like bubbles on wheels

Ich habe den Reliant vor 3 Jahren von meinem Onkel übernommen. Der hatte ihn vor ca. 8-9 Jahren auf eBay in England gekauft und in die Schweiz bringen lassen. Ich, mein Onkel und ein Oldtimerspezialist aus Zürich haben das Auto wieder fahrtüchtig gemacht und der Reliant hat dann auch nach ein paar Versuchen die MFK bestanden. Wenn du den Namen des Spezalisten haben willst, dann schreib mir doch ne PN. Die Autos sind allerdings so simpel konstruiert, dass jeder mit ein bisschen Verständnis von Technik und Autos daran schrauben kann. Es führt fast kein Weg drum herum, einen von der Insel zu kaufen. Auf dem Festland gibt es fast keine und die, die einen haben, wollen nicht verkaufen. Wenn du einen kaufen willst, dann würde ich dir eBay UK empfehlen. Auf Facebook gibt es die Reliant Regal Owners Group. Dort könntest du auch mal reinschreiben dass du einen suchst und würdest bestimmt ein paar Angebote erhalten. Ich hoffe ich habe dir damit geholfen. Gruss

Danke für die Tipps!

If I recall correctly, top speed was supposed to be a tad over 70 mph but I think I managed to coax a little more out of mine

​@@mikemcnichol4343 do you think that's wise, sir?

Mainly because people never replaced the fuel line which goes over the engine. Should be replaced every 3 years or so but Reliant never knew that was the issue

Regal Supervan

I do fluid changes myself and some other little things. I changed the dynamo control box myself this summer for example. My mechanic does all the other servicing. Would love to work some more on my car but I'm not a mechanic. I really love the car. Great fun to drive and gets loads of attention. It is a great car for a student like me. Cheap to run and insure. Absolutely love it!

The car was manufactured in 1972. The original owner had it until 2011. He owned it 39 years!

@@jocam5515 Do you get an old school mechanic to do the work or do you go to any old garage? I ask that because older mechanics tend to know more about these old cars.

@@underneonloneliness2 I bring the car to a garage who is specialized to work on old british cars. Greets

How do you suppose it handles?

Pretty well

No aggressive driving though

Had to slip the clutch a lot or you got a kangeroo!! bouncing up and down

Yes :-)

I painted mine beige

And lose its value!

It is in Switzerland

You can drive corners a lot faster than you might expect

You can safely drive at 20 miles an hour around a corner with out a problem, believe me when I say you have to drive like a fool to fully tip one over, I will admit, one time I did a very fast U Turn and it came up on two wheels, but it was easy to get back down, just turn the wheel the other way, the only other time was when I bit a curb at 25 miles an hour and it flipped up a that happened be cause I lost power looked down to see what had happened, and looked back up, too late but the curb, and up it went, had my wife my dad and my wife's grand mother in it at the time, and all my wife could say was , BARRY stop mucking around, oh and I was driving over a small bridge at the time lol😂, but if drive correctly there Very safe, they drive great in the snow, I love my Car😘

The idiots in Top Gear tampered with the differential, put weights in the car and, it is claimed, also put different sized wheels on the car to make it easily topple over. They like to pick on mundane cars as they did the Morris Marina.