SOLVED: Djetset #615 - Avonex Group Sprint

Djetset · November 23, 2012, 01:25:08 PM

Looks familiar I know, but not quite what it seems! So, for one point, the full make and model name of this car please, and sorry for the poor quality image.

Djetset · December 01, 2012, 06:50:16 AM

Moving on up...

D-type · December 01, 2012, 10:21:31 AM

To eliminate the obvious: is it a Reliant prototype?

Zerk · December 01, 2012, 10:31:51 AM

Bond Bug?

sixtee5cuda · December 01, 2012, 11:48:53 AM

A Reliant Sprint, re-design of the original Bond Bug by Tom Karen. Pictured at a dealer meeting around 1994.

Djetset · December 05, 2012, 10:30:10 AM

Not truely a Reliant or Bond Bug, but sixtee5cuda is right in that the model is called a Sprint, but not by Reliant; so locked to you for the correct name of the producer.

sixtee5cuda · December 05, 2012, 12:52:59 PM

WMC? aka Webster Motor Company

bubenator · December 12, 2012, 12:16:30 PM

Well, if sir Djet doesn't approve of sixtee5cuda's response, here goes:

1. I'm fairly certain that WMC purchased the rights to the basic Bond Bug molds and/or tooling from Reliant in order to produce a 4-wheeled version of the Bug.
2. Before many/(any) of the 4-wheeled versions could be produced, WMC went bankrupt.
3. The remaining molds were procured by a couple Bond Bug enthusiasts who combined some of the modified rear end features of the WMC version with the basic layout of the original Bug to produce the Sprint shown in this picture.

The vehicle is regularly referred to as the "Bug Builders Sprint".

sixtee5cuda · December 12, 2012, 02:45:04 PM

I understood Bug Builders finished assembly, after WMC got started on both a 4-wheeler and the Sprint.

bubenator · December 12, 2012, 03:49:36 PM

I thought WMC specifically worked on the 4-wheeled version.
I could be totally wrong though.

Djetset · December 18, 2012, 08:57:10 AM

WMC is build some 4-wheeler Bugs, plus a handful of 3-wheelers, but this is not a WMC car, and it's not one built by a couple of Bond Bug enthusiasts either. So, we've established this this was called a Sprint, but who made it?

bubenator · December 18, 2012, 01:46:01 PM

I'm still thinking it was Mike and Gary Webster (who founded WMC).

Djetset · December 18, 2012, 02:02:18 PM

No, no direct Webster connection that I know of.

WayneB · December 27, 2012, 06:58:08 AM

Ogle Design

Djetset · December 30, 2012, 02:14:38 PM

Not Ogle Design, although Ogle's original Bond Bug designer (Tom Karen) was involved in this project too.

WayneB · January 02, 2013, 05:09:08 PM

The only other thing I can think of is that Ogle/Reliant farmed out the build of this prototype to Lotus or possibly Specialised Mouldings perhaps?

Djetset · January 07, 2013, 03:15:54 PM

Neither a Lotus nor Specialised Mouldings project.

DeAutogids · January 14, 2013, 08:41:02 AM

There is a much better quality picture of the same car posted as Reliant Sprint. funny.

Djetset · January 14, 2013, 03:43:51 PM

I've now uploaded that better-quality image from the internet (as above), but this car still is not a Reliant Sprint, but a rather a Sprint under anohter brand name.

Djetset · January 14, 2013, 03:50:43 PM

Moving up...

Arunas · January 14, 2013, 04:09:34 PM

Sharp's Commercials?

woodinsight · January 15, 2013, 04:46:51 AM

~~Hodge Group?~~
Avonex?

Djetset · January 15, 2013, 04:49:12 AM

Not Hodge Group nor Sharp's Commercials.

woodinsight · January 15, 2013, 04:54:26 AM

Apologies, I modified my post after you had replied..... $:-\$

Avonex?

Djetset · January 15, 2013, 05:02:29 AM

Yes, the Avonex Group Sprint was the correct name I was lookling for, so another point to you Woodinsight.

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SOLVED: Djetset #615 - Avonex Group Sprint