Longest wannabe Bongo owner ever..

[Bongolian]

Hello all, after many many years I’m finally a Bongo owner, here’s my story..

Way back in the late nineties I passed a car garage near Newquay in Cornwall and saw lined up outside a row of strange looking vehicles.
Curiosity forced me to do a quick u-turn and we went back. My wife, kids and I spent the next hour crawling in and out with an enthusiastic salesman telling us all about the marvellous Mazda Bongo Friendee ‘Moving Cottage’.
Once back home in Lincolnshire I registered on the Bongo Fury site and became even more desperate to own one, sadly I never did and my User login lapsed.. until now.
This weekend I finally bought my dream, it’s a ‘98 Bongo in white and silver and we’re really looking forward to getting out and about with it.
Though my kids are now all grown, they remembered the day we first saw a Bongo and have been eager to reacquaint themselves, our grandchildren were mad keen to try it too, they were squealing with excitement as I raised the roof and they climbed in.
We’re looking forward to some adventures and maybe meeting other Bongolians on our travels.
Cheers, Mick (probably the world’s longest ‘wannabe Bongo owner’).

My thanks to Ian for reenergising my user profile.. much appreciated.

[Bob]

Nice one, welcome aboard.

[Doone]

I know which garage you mean, they no longer sell Bongos, but I'm glad you found one at last. In my experience, grandchildren love Bongo adventures.

[Bongolian]

Early days still but the investment has started to give returns.
One and all who’ve had a look have loved what they see, we’ve used it to fetch and carry a sofa, clear a garage, a Jolly Boys outing to Goodison Park, and my eldest took some pals to a gig in it.
Only issue has been a reluctance to shift from 3rd - 4th during a really wet run across the M62, not had chance to fully investigate as yet but pulled and cleaned / applied silicone grease to all the leccy plugs I could access and it seems okay for now.
It’s due a good service and check over so I’ll be looking to get that sorted before we do any serious treks away, but thoroughly enjoying being a Bongo owner so far.

[Bob]

Great news.