Bugle Buggy, 1970 model

[oko94]

Well, it ticked all the boxes except that it doesn't look like a Bugle buggy 

[grobmotorix]

It does:

[oko94]

I just meant it didn't look like the typical Bugle buggy.

[Djetset]

Wow, this is a new one on me.  Are you 100% certain that this is a Bugle buggy?  Bugle Buggies are usually quite different (inset headlamps, roll-over body side panels, and so on, as below), and I have never seen a Bugle that looks like a GP buggy!  I've just sent your photo a couple of British buggy expert friends, and neither of them have ever seen a GP-style Bugle either, so this could be a new education for us all  .  Thanks.

[sixtee5cuda]

It is a GP, and it is a Bugle.  The puzzle image is from the book "The Dune Buggy Phenomenon":

With interest in turn-key buggies for the rich and famous rising throughout the late 1960s, Bugle Automotive was set up in London by Roland Sharman to meet demand.  Using both GP long and short-wheelbase buggy kits, the well-finished cars were dubbed 'Bugle Buggies'.

[Djetset]

It is a GP, and it is a Bugle.  The puzzle image is from the book "The Dune Buggy Phenomenon":

With interest in turn-key buggies for the rich and famous rising throughout the late 1960s, Bugle Automotive was set up in London by Roland Sharman to meet demand.  Using both GP long and short-wheelbase buggy kits, the well-finished cars were dubbed 'Bugle Buggies'.

Ah ha, thanks, as I have that book and hadn't noticed this. Fake GP rip-offs, using molds taken directly off a GP buggy were common place in 1969 and 1970, but I hadn't spotted that one of these was a GP clone by Bugle.  It's a shocker!

[oko94]

Apparently Bugle used the cloned GP body only for a very short period, as the leaflet posted by grobmotorix dates from Fall 1969 and the ad Djetset and I posted is from October 1970. I guess the cloned GP body was just a stop gap until they finished developing their own body, and that's probably why the former is much less known than the latter.

[grobmotorix]

I guess the cloned GP body was just a stop gap until they finished developing their own body, and that's probably why the former is much less known than the latter.

Which made it a perfect autopuzzles candidate 

[Djetset]

Indeed