389 Reliant-Bond Bug 700 ES

Borderline this one - not really wacky but not that normal either. At least you can see some of these on the roads.

It is a Mazak die-cast branded model and another one that is quite unliked. The lines around headlamp units and on the bonnet are very ill-defined, the paint heavy and that doesn’t exactly help although this is the rarer lime green version!.

I do like the firmness of the opening hatch. That could have been a lot worse and operates very smoothly by pressing the silver button centre rear. Inside the detailing is not really there but it is clean and looks like it has seldom been opened. (The opening unit is heavy, though, and needed to be supported for the photos!)

It is just such a shame that they didn’t do something better with those headlamps.

In excellent condition all round, a good addition to any collection of this era, especially in this colour.