Mazda Bongo F1000

Just found a picture of myself in front of my first bongo when i was 14. I had just finished rebuilding the 1200 in it and had taken it down some local back roads the evening before this pic was taken to give the rebuild a good run when inexperience smacked me hard by way of going too hot into a corner and loosing it. she promptly fell onto the right side before sliding into a table drain which caught the top edge of the windscreen, continuing the roll, ending up back on the wheels in the middle of the dirt track! So when people think i am going to roll a bongo in my later years, i tell them, "don't worry, i know how far they can go, i have rolled one before!" this does nothing to calm them down surprisingly! That was 26 years and 8 bongos ago now and i still have, along with the 7 bongos since, all the doors, the dash and the complete chassis of this first one but most of it is long gone, much like my hair!

From YouTube. THE SKID FACTORY - ALL JAPANESE CLASSIC DAY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-MfpxZdgR4