invacar LightBulbFun's Invacar & general ramble thread, index on page 1, survivors lists on Pages 24/134 & AdgeCutler's Invacar Mk12 Restoration from Page 186 onwards, still harping on...

[somewhatfoolish]

Curse you, I now want cake at 2 am because I have terminal word association.

[egg]

A collectors item or no? @LightBulbFun

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/259373043602025/

[LightBulbFun]

1 minute ago, egg said:

A collectors item or no? @LightBulbFun

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/259373043602025/

thats a bit outside my wheel house im afraid! I do know they where frequently pinched from roadworks and the such like by kids and teenagers to have as a flashing trinket!  

[Andyrew]

On 8/18/2023 at 10:23 PM, chancer said:

The square root of fuck all by the looks of it. She is quite the ignorant type it seems. Change of moderation needed in these quarters, and fast, before every decent bit of content dries up. Actually, the damage is already done. Congratulations 👏 

Dial it back a bit will you,

As possibly one of the most pleasant people ive come to meet in my life, big hearted and always welcoming, Always checking people are okay and always putting other people before herself when visitors to her home or FOD.  

You know nothing of this person, Your asumption on her  via this website is very very wrong. 

Please remember the moderators are people doing what they can in the little spare time they may have for free on a forum that doesnt charge to be a member. The forum and its members and moderators owe you nothing.

Dont like it? Leave. Its that easy. 

 

[Remspoor]

On 8/18/2023 at 10:46 PM, sdkrc said:

Now there's a magazine I've not read in a while

Reading it one handed I take it?

[Remspoor]

On 8/19/2023 at 1:29 AM, warren t claim said:

People can't agree all the time. 

Oh yes they can.

[treehugger]

Don't argue. 

[chancer]

1 hour ago, Andyrew said:

Dial it back a bit will you,

As possibly one of the most pleasant people ive come to meet in my life, big hearted and always welcoming, Always checking people are okay and always putting other people before herself when visitors to her home or FOD.  

You know nothing of this person, Your asumption on her  via this website is very very wrong. 

Please remember the moderators are people doing what they can in the little spare time they may have for free on a forum that doesnt charge to be a member. The forum and its members and moderators owe you nothing.

Dont like it? Leave. Its that easy. 

 

I said it like I seen it. Some folk around here dont like it when others speak their minds. Im entitled to my views just as much as you and everyone else.

Dont like that? Leave. Its that easy

[LightBulbFun]

just came across this photo of an AC Acedes Model 57 on the move which I rather like, you can even just make out the 2 stroke exhaust plume  

https://www.howardgreenberg.com/exhibitions/joel-meyerowitz-european-trip-photographs-from-the-car-1968

its the sort of shot that I imagine by borrowing @Zelandeth and one of his vintage cameras and film stock, could be reproduced today without anyone being any the wiser!  

 

and to go with it, heres a couple other Acedes pictures I have been sitting on

[Mrs6C]

17 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

and to go with it, heres a couple other Acedes pictures I have been sitting on

The Anchor Inn at Tideswell...

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2834739,-1.7619434,3a,35.9y,89.23h,90.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKpLr-bdPWtwc1ymIBk_b5w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

[LightBulbFun]

17 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

The Anchor Inn at Tideswell...

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2834739,-1.7619434,3a,35.9y,89.23h,90.78t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKpLr-bdPWtwc1ymIBk_b5w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Neat! the listing I pinched the photo from says the photo is from 1969 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385918956168

so its cool to see what the location looks like 50 years later/that its still around,   

 

the date is also notable because if said date is accurate, then that Acedes will have been getting long in the tooth by then, and due replacement, back in the day you got a new vehicle every 7 years, and that Acedes is a Mk9 or older,  (assuming it is an Acedes that is, could be an AC Model 64, but the same applies) which puts it at no later then about 1963!  see if you can spot its one key difference between it and EPK912B a 1964 Mk10  

 

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, chancer said:

I said it like I seen it. Some folk around here dont like it when others speak their minds. Im entitled to my views just as much as you and everyone else.

Dont like that? Leave. Its that easy

1050 posts in 7 years? I doubt you'll be missed. It's not what you say, it's how you say it in company you like to keep.

[chancer]

4 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

1050 posts in 7 years? I doubt you'll be missed. It's not what you say, it's how you say it in company you like to keep.

Im obviously not as noisy as yourself chief. Cant remember the last time you had a collection mission. What was the poo count? Did you enjoy the cars and girls thread that was nuked in this new safe environment? How many years did you win the cunt count? Oh sorry, the powers that be dont allow that now. I dont comment or post unless i have something to say my friend....i know if i left i wont be missed, and neither would you, but what is being missed here is the whole fucking point! This forum is a shadow of its former self. I used to be able to spend hours reading and laughing, it was fun and unpredictable. We had poo counts, nudey wimmen, colin, collection threads, meet ups, a lively for sale thread which spurred on more collections and poo counts. It was a place of light hearted banter, and nobody really took offence. Look at it now. A wreck. An invacare of a forum, something that probably should have been left in a bygone time, but somehow theres some of us hang on wishing it could go back to how it was

But here, again, I have to apologise to @LightBulbFun for yet another derailment on his thread

[RayMK]

Hmmmm.

Some pictures of blue three wheelers to cheer the mood.

 

[LightBulbFun]

11 hours ago, RayMK said:

Hmmmm.

Some pictures of blue three wheelers to cheer the mood.

 

hah I particularly  like that shot of the FoD, from when REV snapped her throttle cable , I have not seen that particular rear facing shot before now  

 

[RayMK]

20 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

hah I particularly  like that shot of the FoD, from when REV snapped her throttle cable , I have not seen that particular rear facing shot before now  

 

I quite like that shot as well.  It wasn't the best quality because I suffer from camera shake which often defeats the image stabilisation electronics.

The blue van was a BSA.  It's load area brings a new interpretation to 'wheel arch intrusion.'   Although it was front engined and front wheel drive, anything weighty added to the load area must have made it a handful and heavy on the laundry bills.

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, RayMK said:

I quite like that shot as well.  It wasn't the best quality because I suffer from camera shake which often defeats the image stabilisation electronics.

The blue van was a BSA.  It's load area brings a new interpretation to 'wheel arch intrusion.'   Although it was front engined and front wheel drive, anything weighty added to the load area must have made it a handful and heavy on the laundry bills.

You wouldn't want it as a laundry van, too much weight.

[Zelandeth]

Just remembered something I've been meaning to ask on this thread regarding licencing for ages but keep forgetting.  In fact I may have asked it before and just forgotten the answer - with my memory lately that wouldn't surprise me.

We're all aware there was a specific licence category for invalid carriages, J in old money.  However how did that get reconciled with the Model 70 technically not being an invalid carriage?  Was that something that just had a blind eye turned to it, or is this one of those awkward, confusing areas where vehicle categories for licensing purposes and things like the C&U regs are handled differently?

[LightBulbFun]

how about for something a little different and special, 1 of only 2 Electric Argsons known to survive with an Invacar manufactured, Ministry All weather kit fitted  (hence why it kinda look like the bastard love child of an Invacar Mk8 and well an Argson, because it sort of is!)

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/828194745605509

[LightBulbFun]

11 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Just remembered something I've been meaning to ask on this thread regarding licencing for ages but keep forgetting.  In fact I may have asked it before and just forgotten the answer - with my memory lately that wouldn't surprise me.

We're all aware there was a specific licence category for invalid carriages, J in old money.  However how did that get reconciled with the Model 70 technically not being an invalid carriage?  Was that something that just had a blind eye turned to it, or is this one of those awkward, confusing areas where vehicle categories for licensing purposes and things like the C&U regs are handled differently?

thats something I had wondered myself for a long time, so a little while back I dug into it, and as you say on the last line, things are handled differently for licensing (and vehicle taxation purposes)

from a licensing/taxation perspective the weight limit is 508Kg (10 Cwt) (rather then the 254Kg (5 Cwt) it is for everything else )

 

the 508Kg weight limit also applies to certain other exemptions like the Dartford crossing and M6 toll road etc

 

and just for completeness sake, Invalid Carriages weighing no more than 306Kg do not require an MOT/are MOT exempt

this one is one that I really wish the DVLA actually paid attention to, as there are several Invalid vehicles out that have been robbed of their number plates when they should never have been allowed to have been robbed of their number plates (under the same rules/reason you cant plate rob a Milk float or Tractor)

 

[Scruffy Bodger]

On 8/20/2023 at 6:24 PM, LightBulbFun said:

thats a bit outside my wheel house im afraid! I do know they where frequently pinched from roadworks and the such like by kids and teenagers for old torches as batteries were expensive!  

FTFY

[wesacosa]

[Snake Charmer]

Popped up on another forum due to the plastic car behind it.

[quicksilver]

On 8/21/2023 at 2:37 PM, RayMK said:

I quite like that shot as well.  It wasn't the best quality because I suffer from camera shake which often defeats the image stabilisation electronics.

The blue van was a BSA.  It's load area brings a new interpretation to 'wheel arch intrusion.'   Although it was front engined and front wheel drive, anything weighty added to the load area must have made it a handful and heavy on the laundry bills.

I remember seeing a Morgan van much like that. GR8 design with the back wheel sticking up right in the middle of the load bay and totally exposed so anything you put near it would either fall through the hole or get minced by the wheel. I can't* fathom why they never caught on.

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, wesacosa said:

thats a Modern Tubular Productions Model 30 Hand Cranked invalid Carriage, 1950's is what i'd put that at, not 1920's! 

but very cool to see one restored, £1500 is strong money for something like that, I think Hand propelled IC's are the least loved out of all, but hopefully it can still find a good home! 

 

MTP also made the Model 33C Childs Hand propelled Carriage, one of which can be seen in lots of detail here  

https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1950s-childs-invalid-tricycle-with-hand-controls/

 

[RayMK]

2 hours ago, Snake Charmer said:

Popped up on another forum due to the plastic car behind it.

Those were very rare even when new.  I photographed one at a microcar rally decades ago - same colour.  I'll dig it out to see if it's the same one.  If not, they must have sold at least two 😀.

[LightBulbFun]

6 minutes ago, RayMK said:

Those were very rare even when new.  I photographed one at a microcar rally decades ago - same colour.  I'll dig it out to see if it's the same one.  If not, they. must have sold at least two 😀.

I imagine its the same one, of the Surviving AC Petites (which that is, not an invalid vehicle of any kind! although shares under-pinnings with the AC Model 43 (and Buckland runabout)

604JHK is the most well known, I think @dollywobbler was a passenger in it once, I do note that it did have a keepership change fairly recently

and I think thats the only one of that colour surviving, I mean I dont actively track AC petites, but they are kinda hard to miss in my research, pesky things always confusing people

 

one thing that has always tickled me about that one in particular is that its Essex registered! thats Invacar's home turf!

[JJ0063]

This could be a nice little weekend toy to accompany the Invacare @LightBulbFun?

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/683320999897713/

[egg]

15 hours ago, wesacosa said:

I wonder how much arm and hand strength you needed to make one of those move at a decent pace?

[chadders]

3 hours ago, JJ0063 said:

This could be a nice little weekend toy to accompany the Invacare @LightBulbFun?

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/683320999897713/