As an ex motoring journalist and former owner of several Reliants and Bonds I must be pedantic here. The manufacturer was the Reliant Motor Company and the Robin was one of the models. This was the Reliant Robin and like all models the name Reliant was always the prefix. Calling one a robin reliant is wrong, just as wrong as referring to ,for example, an Escort Ford or a Cullinan Rolls Royce.
@@davidhill6733 actually no, they used a robin reliant in the tv show only fools and horses , maybe youre referring to a different thing but the reliants had only three wheels !
@@marshalllucky Sorry but I have to correct you again. In Fools and Horses, they used a 1967 Reliant Regal Supervan III. This car predated the Robin by a long way - Reliant's first Robins were made in October 1973. The company later offered the Kitten, which was a Robin with four wheels ( I had two Kittens, a hatchback and a van). Soon afterwards, Reliant used the Kitten chassis and mechanical parts in the Reliant Fox, a utility/pickup. Just to clarify, I'm the former editor of Kit Car magazine and I was a long time contributor to Practical Classics magazine. Please aslo see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Motors
@@davidhill6733 Thanks for the monologue, I`ll wait for the autobiography ! No wonder you`re a `former` editor if you can`t recognise a robin reliant which was the three wheeled car in fools and horses, ask anyone :-P
Are you for real? You're either incredibly ignorant or incredibly stupid. David made it very clear. Robin Reliants do not exist and never have existed. They are Reliant Robins. The words are the other way around. How people still make this error is baffling.
The video did not mention that Mr Williams bought the vehicle division of the Raleigh bicycle company,and as many parts were marked with a letter R,he chose a business name beginning with that letter.
Thank you Reliant for all I had ,, made me so happy ❤
Come back Reliant, yr needed more than ATesla 😀
I wonder how many of the production workers ended up with serious respiratory issues , no masks for the glass fibre particles nor the resin fumes 😮😮
When the Styrene Monomer is expelled during the Curing process it can create havoc with the Human Digestive system..
These men must have been off it That Resin phewww
Many forgotten skills on display here. Im sure these guys thought they were going to take over the world.
Love these old robin reliants, sadly robin has shut down now but they are still made in India and Indonesia :-)
As an ex motoring journalist and former owner of several Reliants and Bonds I must be pedantic here. The manufacturer was the Reliant Motor Company and the Robin was one of the models. This was the Reliant Robin and like all models the name Reliant was always the prefix. Calling one a robin reliant is wrong, just as wrong as referring to ,for example, an Escort Ford or a Cullinan Rolls Royce.
@@davidhill6733 actually no, they used a robin reliant in the tv show only fools and horses , maybe youre referring to a different thing but the reliants had only three wheels !
@@marshalllucky Sorry but I have to correct you again. In Fools and Horses, they used a 1967 Reliant Regal Supervan III. This car predated the Robin by a long way - Reliant's first Robins were made in October 1973. The company later offered the Kitten, which was a Robin with four wheels ( I had two Kittens, a hatchback and a van). Soon afterwards, Reliant used the Kitten chassis and mechanical parts in the Reliant Fox, a utility/pickup. Just to clarify, I'm the former editor of Kit Car magazine and I was a long time contributor to Practical Classics magazine. Please aslo see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliant_Motors
@@davidhill6733 Thanks for the monologue, I`ll wait for the autobiography ! No wonder you`re a `former` editor if you can`t recognise a robin reliant which was the three wheeled car in fools and horses, ask anyone :-P
Are you for real? You're either incredibly ignorant or incredibly stupid. David made it very clear. Robin Reliants do not exist and never have existed. They are Reliant Robins. The words are the other way around. How people still make this error is baffling.
Electric Reliant ,, what do you think 😀
The video did not mention that Mr Williams bought the vehicle division of the Raleigh bicycle company,and as many parts were marked with a letter R,he chose a business name beginning with that letter.
Not really a surprise the car side died, but thought the engineering side and fibreglass expertise would have carried on
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