Plus it must be said that his wife was rather lovely too! Lol

@andyandyandy360 One should not attempt to achieve impossible dreams! Who should be supposed to buy these weird "cars"?

now we are out of brexit they can crank up the robin reliant production line again :-)

​@@marshallluckystill impossible because of uk and eu regulation that we still have to abide by

@@ambivalentonion2620 Where`s your British spunk? our Robin Reliants WILL be made again and no wine guzzling Eurocrat is going to change that now we are out of Brexit :-)

The whole thing would need to meet modern type approval because the original has expired. Any new models would need to meet contemporary emissions and construction regs too. Won't help that pretty much every body mold, chassis jig and casting die was scraped or destroyed.

@@prawny12009 Brian can make them with his chopper gun :-)

They would at least need airbags so people accept them. But yeah it is a good idea

When did it ever stop that you could drive on a motorcycle license?

@@KKTR3 Sometime in the early 2000’s then it changed again around 2013 ish. They should just leave the rules alone.

@@underneonloneliness2 Did grandad rights exist though?

A typical negative grumpy old man! People like him are the reason many businesses close down for good!

I'd say he was realistic,

Turns out he was right . And your fking wrong

​​​@@garethjones8047I wouldn't. I have come across plenty like him who are stuck in their ways, afraid of change, who only think there is one way to do things which is their way. A major reason Reliant were not productive is because of conservative managers like him. If only the new boss came in 10-20 years before the company was too far gone.

Puke bucket

they have all got four wheels (one in the boot)

silly actually-one of those urban legends in reality to turn a three wheeler into a four wheeler would need months of design work and brand new machinery-just look at the documentary to see the detail work needed to produce the cars product design and manufacture involves hard work not just a drunk sticking a fourth wheel on, although its a nice story

That sounds lovely but can't be true if the kitten evolved from the the rebel

@@knuckles1206 the kitten was a version of the robin reliant but it had 4 whells , never seen a robin rebel :-(

What was your role? Were you in this programme?

I was one of the buyers

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If he did he probably would have deliberately fu***d the job up anyway to prove a point and make the boss look as big a cu*t as he was acting. It is painful to see management that doesn't understand what they are managing telling the people with the experience and expertise what to do, he had probably never produced any fibreglass components in his life.

@@prawny12009 Even more painful to see that the person with supposedly "experience and expertise" cannot explain why "chop" cannot be used on the car's floor and instead just insists on refusing to find out if it can. I recall Sterling Moss recalling why he liked driving for Mercedes if you said for example "I think the car would go faster with square wheels", there were two responses either "we tried that in 19.. and the car did not go faster" or you had square wheels on your car for the next test session. That attitude is one of the reasons Mercedes is still with us and Reliant is not.

@@prawny12009 Didnt Mr Haynes want to make the crankshafts with a chopper gun too ? lol

This was filmed 23 years ago, I recall they kept going for a few years but they could not afford to keep the vehicles compliant with emission and safety legislation and then moved over to spares and importing Italian 3 wheeled scooter vans.

Spooky I saw that exact kind of guy in one on Monday

@@grahamariss2111 and importing microcars which also suffered sales losses when the licencing laws changed

I don’t remember having goofy teeth aged 31 flying around at 97 and two wheels-

They were may main means of transport for over a decade, more than a F**king toy!