For all you kids out there, what Manfred is talking about, re: Daimler "Hemi" is a neat little European V-8 from the '70's - correct me if I'm wrong, Beach - about 3.0 liters, full on hemi design, looked like a 394 that someone got drycleaned and it shrunk, right?
I would see them occasionally in the English car mags some of my Brit twit friends would get sent over.
I thought it would be neat to get one and put it in front of a Guzzi or BMW gearbox, what a cool bike, but like way too many "neat ideas", never got done.
Never saw one over here in the colonies (Canada) and shipping one from Blighty woulda been mighty expensive.
As for the Bond minicar, if you're not familiar with it, go onto one of the Public Broadcasting Networks and see if there is a "Mr. Bean" episode playing - usually you'd see a Bond tipped over sometime during the program. The Bond minicar is the corollary to the saying, "give an Englishman a piece of metal and he'll do something funny with it" - only, it's, "give an Englishman a bucket of resin and he'll do something even funnier with it.".
Thanks for the memories,
Pat