Project Dollywobbler's Invacar - Ongoing

[Tayne]

Leafs (leaves?) Are coming right down in price, and it will be not long before a cosmetically damaged one will equal write-off.

 

80kw in an invacar. Given that DW and I easily lifted the front wheel off the ground and got it a foot in the air without trying, I suspect a wheelie bar would be needed for every pull-away.

 

Nah, you want to get scrap Tesla components from Norway and software from the Fat Man to make it all run.

 

 

 

Thats a 426bhp motor, inverter and gearbox.

[Timewaster]

Ice Blue is the official DHSS name BTW,also known as Toilet blue

See Citroen C3 colour chart.

[dollywobbler]

Does the variomatic transmission in these produce an LSD effect like it does in a Daf? Wet roundabout plus Invacar equals drifting in an impossibly unlikely way?

Sadly not. One pulley, sending drive to Fiat 500 diff I think.

[Christine]

Bitsa ..... Q plate fodder

[dougiefourspeed]

As an aside, are any of those old road signs still in situ that you used to see on motorway slip roads etc. which effectively said 'THIS IS A FAST BIT SO NO 50cc MOPEDS, NO HORSES, NO CAMELS, NO LIGHT AIRCRAFT, NO DOGGING AND ABSOLUTELY NO BLOODY INVALID CARRIAGES PLEASE.'

 

I remember there used to be one on the A27 around Brighton but I don't think its there anymore. I presume they're no longer deemed necessary? 

[Asimo]

Are they narrow enough to get both on one A-frame for the tow home?

 

Some of the HUGE 4wd mobility scooters that have recently come into use must weigh more than one of these!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Can somebody please do a photoshop of Dollywobbler in an Invacar, jumping a shark. Cos my brain is stung by the fact that I woke up this morning and this whole thread wasn't a weird dream.

[alcyonecorporation]

As an aside, are any of those old road signs still in situ that you used to see on motorway slip roads etc. which effectively said 'THIS IS A FAST BIT SO NO 50cc MOPEDS, NO HORSES, NO CAMELS, NO LIGHT AIRCRAFT, NO DOGGING AND ABSOLUTELY NO BLOODY INVALID CARRIAGES PLEASE.'

 

I remember there used to be one on the A27 around Brighton but I don't think its there anymore. I presume they're no longer deemed necessary? 

 

There's a few on the A55 in North Wales I think. 

[D Spares & Tyres]

But you're driving around in an invalid carriage out of irony, because they're so funny?

 

Okay then.

It's a bloody car mate! I don't care what it was built for. I'm not ripping the piss out of 1990s executives by driving a Lexus...

Ah but you know how hobbies progress...

 

After a while you will find yourself looking at antique wheelchairs and start cruising Aberytwyth promenade on them..

[eifion]

There's a few on the A55 in North Wales I think. 

 

Yes, at the start of the Special Road sections between Colwyn Bay and Conwy, they look like this: . 

[Louise2cv]

I was thinking of the A55 but not sure if they specifically mention invalid carriages.

 

ETA Google images seems to think so. Better remember that for journey planning MrSeabrook.

[Guest Hooli]

Ahh but it's registered as a trike to be on the road now, so it's not an invalid carriage...

[D Spares & Tyres]

Mental illness is still a disability...

[Guest Hooli]

No, it's a requirement for this forum.

[busmansholiday]

Having watched the video it brought back a few more memories of my grandfathers. As I remember there's space behind the seat for a folded wheelchair. When not in use, a small boy can stand in there and enjoy a trip around the local streets. Those were the days.

[richardmorris]

As an aside, are any of those old road signs still in situ that you used to see on motorway slip roads etc. which effectively said 'THIS IS A FAST BIT SO NO 50cc MOPEDS, NO HORSES, NO CAMELS, NO LIGHT AIRCRAFT, NO DOGGING AND ABSOLUTELY NO BLOODY INVALID CARRIAGES PLEASE.'

 

I remember there used to be one on the A27 around Brighton but I don't think its there anymore. I presume they're no longer deemed necessary? 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.1488927,-0.6998548,3a,38.6y,227.63h,89.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9eXvI5hyXEnW1UwNCN2wBg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

A30 sliproad at Thursley.

[dougiefourspeed]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.1488927,-0.6998548,3a,38.6y,227.63h,89.5t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9eXvI5hyXEnW1UwNCN2wBg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

A30 sliproad at Thursley.

 

That one says nowt about Invacars mind, so it looks like the A30 is a prime location for DW to go for a V-MAX run in one of these bad boys.

[barefoot]

There used to be an old guy in the village with one of these, his wife somehow used to squeeze into the back of it and he'd fasten a hay-bale to the engine compartment. They'd go for a drive out to feed their horses.

[adw1977]

Excellent purchase!

 

As an aside, are any of those old road signs still in situ that you used to see on motorway slip roads etc. which effectively said 'THIS IS A FAST BIT SO NO 50cc MOPEDS, NO HORSES, NO CAMELS, NO LIGHT AIRCRAFT, NO DOGGING AND ABSOLUTELY NO BLOODY INVALID CARRIAGES PLEASE.'

 

I remember there used to be one on the A27 around Brighton but I don't think its there anymore. I presume they're no longer deemed necessary?

I think they are all gone now, but they were from the very dawn of motorways:

There was even a Welsh version :

(photos from SABRE)

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Eric Burdon would have been fucked then.

 

 

[dougiefourspeed]

That's the sort of thing. The 'no animals' bit used to make me laugh as a child picturing in my head a cow sauntering down the motorway slip-road and upon reading the sign turning around and flouncing off in a huff.

 

I was a slightly odd child.

[MarvinsMom]

82 mph in an AC Invalid carriage.....

 

now that is scary!!

 

i remember seeing one trundling about town when i was small, like really small, i've not seen one since the last time i was at South Lakes Motor Museum.

 

i didn't think there were any of these left in the wild, just the odd one in museums, then DW goes and finds TWO!!

 

now i cannot wait to see one of them return to the road.....

[billyboy406v6]

If this is to qualify for a calendar shot, can it be after DW has achieved the quoted top speed ?

[dollywobbler]

This feels wrong. I'm home from a caper but don't have a new car on the driveway. Frustrating.

[timolloyd]

What are the most unobtanium parts for these then? Or is there lots of parts bin stuff?

[bramz7]

I vaguely remember them in Bexleyheath back in the mid 90s. Didn't think much of them as there was plenty of three wheelers in regular use then anyway.

I also had a car book (for kids with all the different types of car body styles and other vehicles etc with actual photos) which covered these. Pretty sure I still have said book at my mum's.

[dollywobbler]

What are the most unobtanium parts for these then? Or is there lots of parts bin stuff?

 

Not sure yet. There is a lot of parts bin stuff, and a lot of 'scrapped' parts do seem to have survived somehow - much like the cars.

[oldcars]

When are they due to arrive with you?

[richardthestag]

Don't forget Comic Strip Presents Dirty Movie

 

13.40 or there about's

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJpmfuJKfM

 

 

interesting fact for the day, that cinema was my local Flea Pit, The Rembrandt in Ewell. Long gone and replaced by houses

 

went down there after school to see them in the scene where they threw the dummy off the room, Aid and Rik were signing autographs, was a bit star shocked. Have some piccies of it all someplace

[dollywobbler]

When are they due to arrive with you?

 

No date fixed yet. If we can't tie something up in the next few weeks, I'll forgo the Autotest, hire a van and go and drag at least the 'good' one back home.

 

Anyway, more pics! I might get this one framed.

 

DESIRABLE.