1969 60s sixties Yellow GT4S Bond Equipe 2-litre, English 2+2 sports car cabriolet, 1998 cc 95 bhp (71 kW) six-cylinder engine; travelling at speed on the M6 motorway in Greater Manchester, UK
Early plans by Bond Cars Ltd. for a 6-cylinder version of their Equipe GT4S came to nothing as the company, anticipating the availability of the Triumph Vitesse powerplant for their cars, began to plan a much more ambitious new Bond Equipe. Initial drawings were commissioned from Trevor Fiore, who had worked for TVR on their striking but ill - fated Trident. However much in-house development work (see illustration below) turned the concept into a practical Triumph based proposition - the Bond Equipe 2-litre - illustrated left. The new design still used the pressed steel floor and scuttle assembly from the Triumph Herald/Vitesse, but the latter was now significantly modified with larger more swept back windscreen frame. Whilst the doors used modified Triumph shells, with new specially manufactured Bond pressed-steel skins. The result was that the outward appearance of the new Bond Equipe gave little indication of its Triumph ancestry. The first prototype took to the road in May 1967 with the model announced to the press in August of that year. The Equipe 2-litre was powered by the 1998 cc Triumph engine giving the car a genuine 100-mph capability and a respectable 0-60 mph time of seconds. The interior was also redesigned and particularly well thought out, with new specially designed bucket seats at the front and improved rear headroom.
Size: 3478px × 2318px
Location: Greater Manchester, UK
Photo credit: © ZarkePix / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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