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20 minutes ago, nigel bickle said:

S’wot I did too.

Marvellous venue, perhaps we should return for their annual jamboree, in July?

I only did because I saw you putting yours in it !  I saw the lady afterwards , l,m donating my NGK sparkplug mobile to the museum .it came from the local car accessories shop that closed down.

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this Metro which belong to an autoshitter, was amazing, even smelled the part!

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there was an ant among the grass :)

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you know your in the right place when theres a Model 70 engine in corridor to the main collection... :) 

 

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more of the corridor line up

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the AC Acedes Mk11, MoH Model 57 :) sadly this was the only invalid carriage of any kind they had

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a C5 :) 

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I bet sunny days are fun in the trident!

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a Proper 2 stroke trabbie in fetching Autoshite Pink :)

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a umm this thing, which is powered by the same steyr puch flat twin as found in the Model 70 :) 

 

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of course theres a Model 70 exhaust hanging from the ceiling why wouldn't there be? :mrgreen:

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has a top speed of 27 Mph in reverse if your Usain bolt :) 

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"Structural string"

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sadly the only vintage lighting in the place that I could spot, some nice Atlas super slims here :) oh and some car... :D

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a Lovely Triumph and Metro again next to Modern merc :)

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Japanise MGB belonging to an Autoshitter I think?

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im obviously back now! once more many thanks to SierraMikeHotel for ferrying me about ! (and thanks to Parky for initially offering)  :) and many thanks to egg for organising everything (and for generally sticking with me especially when my back decided it had better things to do) :) and many thanks to the owners of the collection for putting up with us! (and for me taking over the guided tour when she got to the Invacar whoops :D ) and many thanks to all the autoshiters for being kind and friendly, twas a very Awesome day out!

I may have some more pics to throw up but im 110% broken right now, so those will have to wait

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That was rather good fun, innit?

Particularly liked the Sans Permit in proper Autoshite livery.  I reckon that could be the staff car.

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The lady showing us around knew we were all bonkers when she lifted the leather and all the cameras came out...

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And an arty* shot of some rust.

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35 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

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im obviously back now! once more many thanks to SierraMikeHotel for ferrying me about ! (and thanks to Parky for initially offering)  :) and many thanks to egg for organising everything (and for generally sticking with me especially when my back decided it had better things to do) :) and many thanks to the owners of the collection for putting up with us! (and for me taking over the guided tour when she got to the Invacar whoops :D ) and many thanks to all the autoshiters for being kind and friendly, twas a very Awesome day out!

I may have some more pics to throw up but im 110% broken right now, so those will have to wait

Great to meet you Dez.  Hope you had a good time.  Your knowledge of Invacars really is quite alarming!

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I didn’t know about the  event and would of popped along as I was over that neck of the woods today and went for a pint and had the best pub roast ever in the Red Lion in Biddenden.

I also popped into Headcorn airfield and saw some lovely Lotus Caterham sevens parked up and then heard the sound of a Merlin and turned round and saw a Spitfire IX taking off also a Percival Proctor and a gyrocopter.

Headcorn airfield is a great place for meetings and some real interesting aircraft can be seen coming and going.

 

 

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Yes many thanks to egg for arranging a fab afternoon, to LBF for his encyclopaedic and genuinely fascinating knowledge of Invacars and to the collection owners for being so welcoming and friendly . I'm just sorry I wasn't there for the start due to OMG traffic chaos on the M20. I arrived as the lady was explaining the Velorex, It made me wish I had donated my example which I owned years ago to this collection instead of selling it. My bro who arrived by pedal power enjoyed it all too. And yes, the Jap Sherpa convertible in LBF's pic is mine; my recently acquired bit of summer fun.

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To fill in a gap lbf might not know,the Acedes in the collection was actually obtained direct from the dhss central stores in around 1997 when they were about to destroy all villiers powered machines and spares,the ICR,then run by famed eastern bloc nutter Julian Nowill gained access and got them to stop until he had contacted museums around the country to see if any would save them,the Hammond collection being one.

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Looks like a great day out. I was laying slabs all day, seeing stuff like this going on reinforces my view that this is the last year I'm slogging away at stuff on the house every free weekend.

Particularly interesting to see the Daihatsu and Suzuki. I wonder if the latter is the one in this shot?

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Suzuki evaluation cars - Fronte, GX and Van by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Scanned from a 1974 issue of Autocar, so the age is about right and the plate is just a few earlier than this one that the Bubblecar Museum had:

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1974 Suzuki Fronte GC by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

Which I've always imagined to be the one in the photo. If so, remarkable that two of the three survive.

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