I Bought a Reliant Robin!
...and I love it
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I laughed so hard at you yelling "wheeee!". And of course the "bollocks" license plate.
Really, really nice video! I'm already looking forward to a drag race between the Trabant and the Reliant Robin! ;)
Thought you got a Bond Bug... Well in some ways you did lol. Hub Nut gonna be jealous...lol
What a great video! Next project a Reliant Kitten?
My grandad had a few of these when he only had a motorbike licence and struggled/refused to get a car licence, one apparently had no first gear so hill starts involved a passenger pushing before jumping back in. That switch with the red light is the brake warning, in theory it should be connected to the handbrake and brake fluid reservoir. It's a switch is so you can press it and see that the light works. Had the exact same switch on my 1977 Land Rover which, inexplicably, had no other way of making the light come on. Loving the plate anyway, it's a perfect reference to something Jasper Carrott said in the 1970s about American vs British English. I suspect people are confusing this with the Isetta bubble car when it comes to reverse gear.
I guy I worked with only ever owned Robins. None of them had seat head rests so I don't think your seats are standard.
I was born in England and live in England throughout the time that these were made, yet even I can't explain why these were made and why anyone bought them except for people who had a motorcycle licence only, wanted to get about without getting wet and didn't mind dying every time they used it.
I think that's exactly it: people that didn't want to get wet ;)
If cars and coffee gets started again I'd like to see how many car nerds would swoon over a Reliant.
"stability... I have more of it because I'm on anti-depressants"... so PROUD of you to say that. Seriously awesome. Self-awareness and self-expression. You can teach the world this is ok to say.
One day I want to see someone put (bicycle) trainer wheels on the front corners of a Reliant... maybe Aging Wheels will get that fame.
Said no one in the UK 😜
We'll trade you a shipping container full of Reliants for as many Ford Crown Victorias as you want. Or, some other American land boat that should have gone out of production long before it did.
Haha please never remove that front license plate. Pretty much sums up 2020
Crazy I have a 4cylinder motorcycle that came out around the same time as the original robin and it was 650cc at like 65hp. But I only get like 30mpg on a good day😂
Hilarious video. Amazing how it's worse than many British 60s cars, well probably even 50s...
Nice!
Oh my God that's amazing it's going to be so cool to see some videos of it.
That's awesome. I'd love to have one
That is so cool. It will be neat to see the chickens take a ride in the Robin for obvious reasons.
Put the reg in here, you'll see the prior MOT (state inspection equivalent) history when it was on the road in the UK. There's UK CarFax equivalent but it's probably not worth paying for. https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history Also, I remember that fish and chip shop, he had some videos on youtube which did feature the car. Sad to hear that he went out of business... Edit... Found these.... https://web.archive.org/web/20190507043045/http://www.chipshopnyc.com/reliant-robin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivKkNycvmIw
That video was hilarious. This car was in good hands
Can I just say: awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!