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...

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, AdgeCutler said:

Brian had a nice little outing today, to a lovely show I visit each year at Rainscombe Park. As always upon arrival I had a quick perusal of my steed and found an issue. Not the drive flange nuts as per the above post but the hub nut immediately behind them had worked ever so slightly loose. The only real tell tale was that the felt seal had allowed more than the usual wibble of grease to pass hardly noticeable but I am quite in tune with the car.

Anyhow, a great day was had,  86 A and B road miles covered in 2hrs 45minutes including a couple of quick photoshoot stops. 
Here’s a shot of Brian at Silbury hill.

Awesome to see Brian out n about once more, covering the miles  I notice he got papped on flicker at another show a couple weeks ago, I like the info-sign in the window with the drawn Invacar badge  

 

 

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An analogue shot of REV from my visit in March on long expired film....

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Oh and another one...

[Mrs6C]

@egg - brilliant! With a bit of a crop to remove the modern vehicle, I think the casual observer would be hard-pressed to say what year the photograph was taken...

[Andyrew]

Little REV update

New headlight bowls and trim fitted. My word these plastic bowl kits are utter shite

Anyone who's seen or maybe it's in this thread somewhere but the engine cover hinges had ripped through from over opening. One was hanging on by hope and the other had a big penny washer. I went for a stonger mechanical fix rather than fibreglass repair.  I made two brackets that utilise the body support struts. 

On the body it was missing some of its anti Rattle bungs for the engine cover to rest on when closed. I punched holes into 4 blind grommets and used some spare number plate screws and made my own and relocated the only two original ones to the top holes

New Clutch shoes being fitted

Upon removal I'd noted the standoffs that the shoes pivot off was  really tight on the shoe that the lining had failed on. On the used spare set it was the same story. 

The shoes had a little overspray inside the bush from the relining process. I cleaned both parts back with 600 grit then  put a blob of cutting compound on the stand off and kind of lapped it in until is turned smoothly. Happy that all 3 are now moving nicely. 

I also opted to use the spare centre plate as revs was bent

[LightBulbFun]

5 hours ago, Andyrew said:

Little REV update

New headlight bowls and trim fitted. My word these plastic bowl kits are utter shite

my apologies for that! I picked those plastic bowls up just as  fuck about and find out sort of thing that I never quite got around to actually fucking about with and finding out  , the new headlight chrome and having them actually sit flush with the bodywork makes for a nice little facelift tho  

and thats very awesome to see the hinges and the new clutch shoes being fitted  once again thank you for taking care of all things like this!  

 

EDIT: also fitting day for a REV update, as Bert Greeves was Born on this day 119 years ago!

[LightBulbFun]

On 04/06/2025 at 13:08, motorpunk said:

Spotted today (?)

On 05/06/2025 at 08:04, motorpunk said:

In a field full of priceless classics and krypocurrency wankers it was a nice sight.

  if your wondering how it got there  

 

[beko1987]

52 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

  if your wondering how it got there  

 

Pppft that's cheating 

[LightBulbFun]

23 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Pppft that's cheating 

IKR! its the sole road worthy Model 67 and it wasn't driven there! ((its also ULEZ exempt and 2 Stroke, it would be rude *not* to drive it through Central London given the chance!)

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

IKR! its the sole road worthy Model 67 and it wasn't driven there! ((its also ULEZ exempt and 2 Stroke, it would be rude *not* to drive it through Central London given the chance!)

Yep! I'd understand if they drove 344 miles there on the trailer from somewhere then got it off and drove the last few miles and into the show  but trailering it right in ruins it

[Andrew353w]

2 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

IKR! its the sole road worthy Model 67 and it wasn't driven there! ((its also ULEZ exempt and 2 Stroke, it would be rude *not* to drive it through Central London given the chance!)

I should love to know more about that engine; two stroke and (presumably)  twin cylinder & air cooled-is it a little like a Trabant engine?

[LightBulbFun]

3 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Yep! I'd understand if they drove 344 miles there on the trailer from somewhere then got it off and drove the last few miles and into the show  but trailering it right in ruins it

why whats wrong with driving 300 miles in an Invacar?

still is a great rig tho dont get me wrong! if you are going to tow it, do it in style!   

2 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

I should love to know more about that engine; two stroke and (presumably)  twin cylinder & air cooled-is it a little like a Trabant engine?

The Model 67 (Fibreglass AC Acedes) like all other non-electric fullbodied machines before the Model 70 (and excepting the AC Model 43 All Weather Tricycle) uses a Villiers 197cc single cylinder engine 9E in the early machines and 11E in the later machines (like the Fibreglass Acedes), devloping 8.6Hp sent to one rear wheel only  

which looks a bit comically lost in the engine bay! 

compare with this picture from @Mrs6C of REV's engine which has just been reinstalled (how many other cars can you see the dashboard from outside the engine bay like this LOL)

[LightBulbFun]

I appear to have to a secret admirer (that going by the box it came in has a non working speedometer) as this little 1/43rd scale 'TWC'  was handed to me by the post man this morning! which is nice I had a couple original KPK71P models but I never did get round to getting a TWC one, so its nice to have one