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...

[plasticvandan]

😬oops!

[mercedade]

  On 20/10/2024 at 23:26, wuvvum said:

Was that some sort of drag race for Invacars?  I bet that was a sight to behold!

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Tragic, really.

So much death and destruction. All those racers, killed immediately after the lights went out on the grid.

[Snake Charmer]

  On 22/10/2024 at 07:27, plasticvandan said:

😬oops!

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Disqualified for outside assistance. 

[IronStar]

  On 20/10/2024 at 20:24, LightBulbFun said:

 

 

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This looks so Steampunk! Much want, preferably paired with a Hayabusa engine! 

[LightBulbFun]

  On 22/10/2024 at 11:42, IronStar said:

This looks so Steampunk! Much want, preferably paired with a Hayabusa engine! 

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if you think thats steampunk, just wait until ya see the controls of the Mk1 specifically

the Mk2 moved to the Invacar type 1 arm tiller control

 

but AC did continue to produce Aircraft control into the Acedes era for special cases that called for it 

for example seen here on NPJ340D 

as I said at the time I first posted about NPJ, I cant help but look at that style of steering setup and think "dagadagaga" to the sound of a Merlin V12  

 

[Christine]

It would get anyWERE    (  see what i did there !   ) near  a Messerschmitt,  they're a  78mph  machine  with 4 wheels and  4 brakes 

[Christine]

Did you see that video of the Tesco lorry exploding on the M25 yesterday ?  I thought it had side swiped an Invacar  and ruptured  the petrol  tank !   Lets hope the driver was ok anyway

[wuvvum]

  On 22/10/2024 at 13:43, Christine said:

It would get anyWERE    (  see what i did there !   ) near  a Messerschmitt,  they're a  78mph  machine  with 4 wheels and  4 brakes 

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That's only the Tigers, and they're rare as rocking horse shit (and fetch stupid money).  The KR200 is much more common and also has insufficient wheels, although it is still somewhat quicker than a Villiers-engined Invacar.

[barefoot]

  On 22/10/2024 at 11:59, LightBulbFun said:

I cant help but look at that style of steering setup and think "dagadagaga"

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Can't you replace the stock set up in the REVmobile with the arrangement from a Piper Cherokee using just a Philips screwdriver or similar?

[Christine]

Pop rivet! 

[Christine]

That does remind me, about a year after i left school, a few old school friends unexpectedly  turned up  to my house . One , the former deputy  headboy , who  at school had a 55 mph Suzuki  AP50 moped, now   had a  white  Robin  Reliant , the cute one , with round headlights. Inside , he'd fitted loads of  52mm Smiths gauges . Fucking impressive eh? Like a racing car !(  I was still on a push bike  )None of them were connected or worked    though ! 

[Christine]

  On 22/10/2024 at 15:32, wuvvum said:

That's only the Tigers, and they're rare as rocking horse shit (and fetch stupid money).  The KR200 is much more common and also has insufficient wheels, although it is still somewhat quicker than a Villiers-engined Invacar.

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There was a kr200 at a stables i used to go to . It was offered to me for free ... but i bought the blokes land rover series 3 instead  ,  for 100 quid ..and  next time i went there the messerschmitt had gone for scrap!  I might have made a mistake eh  , but i got 250 for the fairy overdrive off it , and another 75 quid  for the roof rack ... 

[anonymous user]

My brother, sister and I had a Messerschmitt to play with when we were kids, unfortunately we left it in the hedge to rot away. A neighbour did salvage the canopy and engine and years later I got the handlebars and speedometer off it, which I swapped for a triang pedal car. The remaining, remains were buried in the concrete slab under my sister's hay shed.

[chadders]

This is still about the things with a wheel missing rather than the ones with wings is it?

I just got a bit lost after the Merlin reference earlier and thought one or more DB601s might be involved, although the Spanish ones did have Merlins as you can see in the 'Battle of Britain' film, as did the 'He111s'.

[D.E]

Messerschmitt party trick!

 

[IronStar]

  On 22/10/2024 at 11:59, LightBulbFun said:

if you think thats steampunk, just wait until ya see the controls of the Mk1 specifically

the Mk2 moved to the Invacar type 1 arm tiller control

 

but AC did continue to produce Aircraft control into the Acedes era for special cases that called for it 

for example seen here on NPJ340D 

as I said at the time I first posted about NPJ, I cant help but look at that style of steering setup and think "dagadagaga" to the sound of a Merlin V12  

 

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It’s the single headlight that does it. With twin it just looks like a regular 3wheeler. 
Attaching a “dagagagagagaga” sound to honking the horn and seeing that would probably make at least one person duck for cover 😄

[LightBulbFun]

  On 10/10/2024 at 20:42, Dyslexic Viking said:

This is interesting, did they drive up here or were they transported here? 

And do you know about the route they did?

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All this talk of AC All Weather Invalid Tricycle, did remind me I have this photo which had this description  

"Mrs.Nellie Monic Ready For A Touring Holiday On The Continent Prepares To Board The Cross-Channel Air Ferry At Lympne Airport,Kent In A Special Designed Invalid Tricycle Car.3Rd June 1954"

I know others crossed the channel by boat or the such like, somewhere theres a great photo of Denny Denly's Argson way up in the air being loaded onto a boat by way of crane and wires/ropes  

[LightBulbFun]

  On 22/10/2024 at 18:47, IronStar said:

It’s the single headlight that does it. With twin it just looks like a regular 3wheeler. 

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given were you reside, I wonder if you could find a soviet SMZ S1L Invalidka?

 

[IronStar]

  On 23/10/2024 at 10:20, LightBulbFun said:

given were you reside, I wonder if you could find a soviet SMZ S1L Invalidka?

 

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As likely as British Invacar. We were never part of USSR nor were relations that tight to ever get these (or any other USSR-specific oddities). 

[DodgeRover]

  On 22/10/2024 at 14:09, Christine said:

Did you see that video of the Tesco lorry exploding on the M25 yesterday ?  I thought it had side swiped an Invacar  and ruptured  the petrol  tank !   Lets hope the driver was ok anyway

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I saw that, it didn't half go up. Looking at the fireball I wondered if it had been a CNG or LNG wagon, diesel doesn't normally go up in a huge fireball.

[Christine]

' Letric  i think

[chadders]

  On 23/10/2024 at 18:00, Christine said:

' Letric  i think

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That's ominous if it's the case.

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[Christine]

I heard today , Waitrose hasn't any letric lorries , but they're looking into letric home delivery vehicles 

[plasticvandan]

LBF must have his driving gloves and chip shop order at the ready now,must be hungry hasn't been to the chip shop for 3 years

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 24/10/2024 at 15:27, plasticvandan said:

LBF must have his driving gloves and chip shop order at the ready now,must be hungry hasn't been to the chip shop for 3 years

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nah it's fis on Friday!

[chadders]

  On 24/10/2024 at 15:27, plasticvandan said:

LBF must have his driving gloves and chip shop order at the ready now,must be hungry hasn't been to the chip shop for 3 years

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What sort of driving gloves though?

Stringbacks are associated with British Sports cars, what sort are associated with invacares?

[plasticvandan]

  On 24/10/2024 at 15:42, Noel Tidybeard said:

nah it's fis on Friday!

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I know,if he sets off now they might have some fishcakes left

[Noel Tidybeard]

  On 24/10/2024 at 15:47, chadders said:

What sort of driving gloves though?

Stringbacks are associated with British Sports cars, what sort are associated with invacares?

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damart for that added giffer on walking sticks look

[JJ0063]

  On 24/10/2024 at 15:27, plasticvandan said:

LBF must have his driving gloves and chip shop order at the ready now,must be hungry hasn't been to the chip shop for 3 years

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Be doing twat laps of Sloane street before you know it 

[chadders]

  On 24/10/2024 at 18:46, JJ0063 said:

Be doing twat laps of Sloane street before you know it 

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Didn't Tara Palmer Tomkinson do that naked a few years ago?