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
@@marshalllucky You have got to be joking, right? David literally posted the Wikipedia page to the Reliant Motor Company and you somehow disregarded that as if he just made it up on the spot. David is completely right, the vehicle in OFAH was a Supervan and Reliant did indeed make 4 wheeled vehicles, please see vehicles such as the Scimitar, the Kitten, the Sabre and even the Rebel, all these models were produced by Reliant and all had 4 wheels, please stop pulling nonsense out of nowhere especially since it would take a couple of google searches to disprove what you've said yourself, and maybe then you'd have a better understanding of Reliant. Adding on, I'm just going to repeat what David said, the Regal did pre-date the Robin by over a decade, three decades even if you count the first instance of the Regal name use. I probably get why people call them Robin Reliants, probably because of Top Gear, but that name is wrong, again, like what David said, it'd be like calling a Ford Transit a Transit Ford, a Honda Civic a Civic Honda and vise versa. Tl;Dr It'd be best if you did atleast the bare minimum of research instead of being so confident in what you're saying, which is blatantly wrong. Disregarding a Wikipedia page is like disregarding the Dictionary if someone was trying to show you the correct way to spell something.
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.
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 😮😮
Many forgotten skills on display here. Im sure these guys thought they were going to take over the world.
Not really a surprise the car side died, but thought the engineering side and fibreglass expertise would have carried on
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
@@marshalllucky You have got to be joking, right? David literally posted the Wikipedia page to the Reliant Motor Company and you somehow disregarded that as if he just made it up on the spot. David is completely right, the vehicle in OFAH was a Supervan and Reliant did indeed make 4 wheeled vehicles, please see vehicles such as the Scimitar, the Kitten, the Sabre and even the Rebel, all these models were produced by Reliant and all had 4 wheels, please stop pulling nonsense out of nowhere especially since it would take a couple of google searches to disprove what you've said yourself, and maybe then you'd have a better understanding of Reliant.
Adding on, I'm just going to repeat what David said, the Regal did pre-date the Robin by over a decade, three decades even if you count the first instance of the Regal name use. I probably get why people call them Robin Reliants, probably because of Top Gear, but that name is wrong, again, like what David said, it'd be like calling a Ford Transit a Transit Ford, a Honda Civic a Civic Honda and vise versa.
Tl;Dr It'd be best if you did atleast the bare minimum of research instead of being so confident in what you're saying, which is blatantly wrong. Disregarding a Wikipedia page is like disregarding the Dictionary if someone was trying to show you the correct way to spell something.
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.
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