I have to say I know very little about the Bond Equipe technically. I just remember my friend being very proud of it and it being a treat to either ride in it or take a peak where it was parked up in their garage. It would only have been about 10-15 years old then but was clearly already marked out as something special by the family.
His father was a senior manager at Brown Brothers and the whole family loved their cars. Brown Brothers owned a veteran car at the time and his father used to drive it in the London to Brighton. He brought it home one day and took us for a ride in it. Nice!
Then a couple of years ago as part of my historical research into Scalextric I discovered the man who was head of R&D throughout the 60s. If Scalextric made it in the 1960s he either designed it, thought it up or oversaw it. He was still alive and well in his 90s. He was a veteran of the 1950-80s toy market, you name it and he had worked for them. He also did freelance work and a chance conversation meant he showed me a photo of a model he had been commissioned to make for Brown Brothers.
Yep, it was the same car. And just take a look at the masterpiece he created.
