{"id":28543,"date":"2012-10-09T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=28543"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:50:43","slug":"bond-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/bond-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Bond Bug: Three Wheeler"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are many things that, for children of the seventies, bring floods of nostalgia.<\/p>\n

There was the quality TV comedy<\/a>, the memories of power cuts and incessant news of industrial action:<\/a> and there is the Raleigh Chopper<\/a> and the Bond Bug.<\/p>\n

And funnily enough, Austrian born designer Tom Karen was responsible for the last two. At least in part.<\/p>\n

When Karen was working for Ogle Design<\/a> a relationship with plastic fantastic manufacturers Reliant<\/a> was born and boom: the lethal, orange harbinger of quirk was soon to grace British streets.<\/p>\n

When the Bond Bug was eventually released in 1970 it charmed with the platform soled, leather booted times. It sold fairly well, was an instant icon of seventies pop culture – so much so that it helped Karen score the design job of sketching out Luke Skywalker’s speedster<\/a> in George Lucas’s era defining movie Star Wars.<\/p>\n

Design elements cross reference and bleed each to each. We just would not have wanted to go far in a car that made the Robin look like a sensible consumer choice.<\/p>\n\n\t\t