Tesla Powered Bond Bug better than any modern EV?

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Ай бұрын

What is the most fun retro-mod? It might be Silent Classics' three-wheeled, electrified, fiberglass Bond Bug from the 70s.

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@robinwalton-gm5ms Ай бұрын

Drove UK to Rome and back in 1972. Slept one night in Munich in the car....2 x 6' 6" guys as no money left for hotel, only beer! Heard the shooting at the Olympic Village. Owned the Bug for 2 years, cost £642 new.....RIP the UK car industry.

@bobeden5027 Ай бұрын

What happened at Minute 4, driving on the right hand side of the road? weird, hey?

@douglaskinloch6272 Ай бұрын

I've always thought they'd make a fantastic EV!

@roycampbell9740 Ай бұрын

Thanks Jack for not turning my Bug over the day before I collected it! Thanks also for making it go so well - 60 bhp feels very different to 30 bhp. Just to set the record straight the Bug chassis used some parts in common with the Reliant Robin but was a new design by the famous racing engineer John Crossthwaite who was contracted by Reliant to design the Scimitar chassis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crosthwaite It features trailing arm suspension, a panhard rod, anti-roll bar and adjustable Spax coilover shocks. With that setup and the new lowered centre of gravity it is very sure footed.

@martinda7446 Ай бұрын

We had one parked in our street in the 70s. Everyone was excited about the orange bug... And the Bond resonated with James Bond, more so in those days. They did get the wheel arrangement back to front though... As we all know!

@PRH123 Ай бұрын

Sometimes drives on the left hand side of the road, and sometimes on the right…. I guess that’s the car going where he points it….

@toyotaprius79 26 күн бұрын

That's the point of a broken white line

@toyotaprius79 26 күн бұрын

Dear god I need to experience one of these.

@rhiantaylor3446 Ай бұрын

Great that you didn't roll it, but if you can lift a wheel off the ground, you are well on the way :)

@TheEulerID 9 күн бұрын

Not really. What happens is on those three wheeled Reliants is that once the inside wheel lifts it spins away all the power due to the open diff, the loaded wheel loses power, the car slows and it drops back down again. Not elegant, but pretty safe. In the case of a Bond Bug with batteries in the floor pan, the CoG will be very low down and it's not going to roll over just because the inner wheel has started to lift fractionally. The infamous Top Great episode which had Reliants falling over with ease was because they'd been heavily modified. Welded up diffs, heavy weights on the outside, modified suspension and so on.

@davidsamways Ай бұрын

Wonderful conversion. I loved the one I had in the mid eighties. I had mine up to a speed that went beyond the 80mph indicated on the speedo - which was fairly hairy! I found it to be perfectly happy cornering at a brisk pace. The only time I turned it over was when rather cockily reversing in Wallisdown College (now Bournemouth University) car park. To add to the ignominy a bunch of little kids who were having a kick-about on the nearby playing field all ran over and pushed the car back onto its wheels 😄. I had custom opening windows made for mine and fitted sealed-cell foam to the inside of the engine compartment to reduce the row. Eventually, I gave it to a mate and bought one of the last of the 850 Minis which I hammered back and forth from Christchurch to university in Colchester. Such fun! How much do you think it would cost to convert my '95 Hilux to electric with 100 miles of range?

@Walt_G Ай бұрын

what sort of range does it have?

@iwadik Ай бұрын

insane

@MrHemlock51 Ай бұрын

They're ok as long as you can keep the power on around the corners. Try trail braking round one of those downhill hairpins, it'll flip over. Been there, done that, got the T shirt 😂

@frankieboy302 Ай бұрын

Mine used to corner much better with the roof off (only 2 hinge pins, a few bullet connectors and a screen wash tube…!)!

@micheltebraake7915 Ай бұрын

Nice car.

@barriewilliams4526 Ай бұрын

I wouldn't be happy with putting that sort of torque through a Reliant differential. My wife owned a Honda Gold Wing trike, the rear end being reliant. A common choice owing to it's relatively narrow track, and simplicity. The problem of cause is, the 124 hp provide by the Gold Wing engine is considerably more than the diff was designed for. After destroying two rear axles, and having a very narrow escape when the second axle's completely locked up on the M6 motorway (fortunately at low speed due to a Traffic jam) It was returned to the dealer. We found out later that the dealer repaired the trike, and it was sold on to a woman in London. I hope that she only uses it around London, and is not too eager with the throttle....

@nakfan Ай бұрын

Beautifully filmed and lovely content 👍 Subscribed. BR, Per (Denmark)

@jama211 Ай бұрын

is it actually tesla powered or is it just an EV conversion?

@tobster786 Ай бұрын

BEAMNG PEOPLE UNITE! ITS THE REAL WIGEON

@JohnnyTheCache Ай бұрын

kinda close call at 1:19

@martinda7446 Ай бұрын

Dodgy place to pull right onto a blind bend. Without seat belts...😳

@andrewcraynor1252 Ай бұрын

Great video and great work, when as these conversions going to be affordable for the average person I.e under £15k😀

@phatmeow7764 24 күн бұрын

murican motorhead : cool but i would cram in a 5.0 coyote V8 in there yeehaw!

@greatbritannialine Ай бұрын

Its reliant robin not robin reliant you dont call it a fiesta ford

@Walt_G Ай бұрын

I always thought it was based on the Reliant Regal?

@greatbritannialine Ай бұрын

@@Walt_G it wasn't really, it was based on a brand new chassis design by John crosthwaite and all the running gear that was for the up coming robin 750 due to be launched in 1974. You're getting confused with the original design concept which was to be based on a shortened Regal but that never happened.

@Walt_G Ай бұрын

@@greatbritannialine quite possibly, it was about 30 years ago that i had my Regal.

@earlscourtsw10 Ай бұрын

It’s ‘Reliant Robin’ not ‘Robin Reliant’

@johndaniel5448 Ай бұрын

Shame you couldn't keep inside the white lines going round the corners

@johndaniel5448 Ай бұрын

Not forgetting the seatbelt

@tallandhairy Ай бұрын

@@johndaniel5448 ....and the forward observation pulling out twice in front of traffic coming the other way when the road otherwise seemed generally very quiet and waiting another moment or two would have been the sensible thing to do. The bug looks great though.

@solosailorsv8065 Ай бұрын

APTERA

@Astraalilaama Ай бұрын

Looks fun and all but how can you fuck up the mic audio level so badly in the video? You can correct it you know. Most people will leave the video at 00:20 You should adjust your audio levels in editing.

@benkelly9529 Ай бұрын

You must be fun at parties

@Astraalilaama Ай бұрын

@@benkelly9529 Do you have ears?

@Zamboro Ай бұрын

@@benkelly9529 He provided helpful constructive feedback, that contributes value and takes none away. A mature person would thank him for the free lesson.

@thomashillen47 Ай бұрын

You are not buckled in - bad showmanship of carelessness.

@Astraalilaama Ай бұрын

The mic audio on this video is even worse showmanship in my opinion😅

@erikstigter7897 Ай бұрын

We need more people like you - sucking the life out of anything fun.. fun is distracting.

@PrivateEyeYiYi Ай бұрын

Maybe the car is exempt from that regulation because of low volume.

@xenasloan6859 Ай бұрын

gracious! what a transformation

@xenasloan6859 Ай бұрын

and no stink.....

@DrB934 Ай бұрын

That audio...

@mikewallace8087 Ай бұрын

3 Wheel DEATH TRAP

@Walt_G Ай бұрын

I had a Reliant Regal, it was nowhere near as bad as everyone makes out.

@jaybeeff1 Ай бұрын

You might have been safer with your seat belt on!

@hurtighansen1 Ай бұрын

Really bad mic.

@TilmanBaumann Ай бұрын

Tesla powered?

@misaelramos83 Ай бұрын

Might have cells out of a Tesla

@MrAdopado Ай бұрын

No! Telsa battery modules but there is no Tesla motor that makes such small power. You definitely wouldn't want (or need) the power of a Tesla motor in a Bond Bug.