eBay tat volume 3.

6,729 · April 23

Fiat 132.

https://www.donedeal.co.uk/vintagecars-for-sale/fiat-132/42013781

7,464 · April 23

14 hours ago, wesacosa said:

standard air con is the snowflake symbol and small light in the centre of the dial, as per the picture of the car for sale . Push the dial in to turn on . Not all Pandas had it but some do

The picture you show above is the digital climate control from the higher spec models

Also the versions that have climate control (Eleganzas and most 100hp) have an over strong stepper motor in the heater blend door, that snaps the tab so the heater only blows cold. The rarer version with the conventional heater knob with the push in air con knob is the one to get.

7,464 · April 23

By eck... Slow down you might hit that phone box...

Oh Shite...

Reminds me of the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust.

LINK

23,600 · April 23

4 hours ago, Weird Car said:

10 thousand pounds for what is probably the most pointless invacar to own today, half the novelty of these is that they have handle bars and you have to push down to brake

the sad thing is also the over-restoration which JPA268N has had, which as I understand was "all fur coat and no nickers", not just in the sad things done to the mould lines that are some of the fine details that differentiate an AC Model 70 from an Invacar Model 70, the wheels and shit number plates, shit headlights and shit mirrors

but on a more serious general matter, beyond just my rivet counting/personal taste matters.

in the past someone I know did go to look at buying that one back when the original person who over-restored it and converted it to steering wheel control, was selling it, and apparently some bits in the steering wheel conversation where done in a dangerous manner that caused one person who did briefly buy the car, to send it back!

I cant speak of the exact details myself as I have not seen the car in person/and its been a while since I last discussed it with others in the know,, but there are certainly visible details that the restoration was done without all that much understanding/or care for the fine details, take for example the rubber flooring which was replaced, notice they have it with the rubber lines going lengthways

rather then horizontally across the car from door to door, its meant to be horizontally across the car so any water that happens to pool, can drain out the doors and provide and I think you would want it horizontally also to provide good grip against someone putting their feet down against it

so I would certainly recommend any prospecting buyer to go in with their eyes wide open and go over the vehicle with a fine tooth comb...

(im glad to see at least the original handle bar hardware survives with the car so it can be restored back to original configuration, it was not always a steerring wheel car, sadly it was converted to steering wheel, by the person who over-restored it, for all of the 500 miles he actually did with the thing, sadly its not the last time he did something like this VES108S/XEV88S was a very rare single handed tiller control machine, which got converted to handle bars and then sold! like FFS,, I could understand changing the control scheme to suit if you where going to seriously use the vehicle, but if its just going to sit around/not get used and just get sold, leave it alone...)

its certainly not a £10K car by any stretch of the imagination!