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Come on then. There are some very clever & knowedgeable guys & girls out there, so who can tell me the manufacturer of those pale blue, two stroke invalid carriages, that were very popular for years, during the '70's ? And when was the last time you saw one ?? How about one as the basis as a mad project, with perhaps modern motorbike power ? Come on, someone must know !
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invacar i believe
think most were scrapped but theres a couple lurking about , used to be a real head turner when you saw one of those come past
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91 golf g60, 89 golf 16v , 88 polo breadvan
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91 golf g60, 89 golf 16v , 88 polo breadvan
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AC - same people who make the cars !
They were supposed to all be scrapped and not sold to the public when withdrawn. Some managed to slip though the net by being claimed that they were for museums, collectors and such. I used to be a member of RUM (Register of Unusual Microcars) at the time and they had a contact that could help with "liberating" one but there wasn't much demand.
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A bit more searching & ive come across this, which pretty much confirms what your saying, steveo. They say safety concerns - yet they let that 'P45 ' chariot, that that clown Clarkson 'built', on the open road !!!  Is this really the same 'AC' company, that gave us the Cobra ?? |
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 Hey, steveo, was this taken somewhere that they were being collected for scrapping ? Or.........some mad persons personal ' museum' collection !!! |
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i just found it on google , the site suggests it was outside a specialist repair garage for them
theres a couple of youtube vids of em too...the seem to nip along
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91 golf g60, 89 golf 16v , 88 polo breadvan
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91 golf g60, 89 golf 16v , 88 polo breadvan
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Was the engine a villiers stroker ? Single or twin. How many CC ? I thi k it's a shame they've been taken out of circulation. One would certainly make a statement, if it were to turn up now. A bit eccentric - like a British Trabby !!
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people on dla wont be so keen if thats all they would be allowed to drive lol
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people on dla wont be so keen if thats all they would be allowed to drive lol i was thinking the same the but didnt dare say it alot of the streets now would look like that pic with lines of em everywhere |
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there was a main dealer here in claudy ni in there 70 s , he had until recently had some plus spares still in stock ,
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There used to be a repair garage in Sandy Lane, Church Crookham when I was a kid
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96 E320 W210 Wafter - on 18" split Mono's - Sold :-(
10 Kia Ceed Sportwagon - Our new daily
03 Import Forester STi - Sold
98 W140 CL500 AMG - Brutal weekend bruiser! Sold :-(
99 E240 S210 Barge - Now sold
02 Accord 2.0SE - wife's old daily - gone in PX
88 P100 2.9efi Custom - Sold
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Ha-ha-ha, smokem, do you think the mechanics would own up to where they worked ?? Can you imagine the mickey taking they'd suffer from their mates !
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Hey shielsy, I hope they were dealers for something else too ? It wouldn't be a very exciting showroom, if it were stocked with only the one model, in only the one colour !! I can't imagine the list of options were all that entertaining !!  ? |
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Years ago I was on a photoshoot in Wales (embarrassingly I can't recall where in Wales, but I suspect it was in the Swansea area) and we were shooting on an abandoned industrial estate. I went for a wee behind the back of one of the units and was confronted with hundreds of these things piled up, all being eaten by vegetation. I peered through a crack in the door to the unit, and there were literally hundreds in there too, all thrown in seemingly randomly.
The guy whose car we were shooting stated that the company were tasked with decommissioning them, but went out of business. There were so many there I suspect it's where the vast majority of them ended up.
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i seen an ole fella roll one one when i was 6 , first time i ever seen one , had a funny steering wheel too
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seems you could get steering wheel , handle bars or a thing like a boat rudder handle lol
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91 golf g60, 89 golf 16v , 88 polo breadvan
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seems you could steering wheel , handle bars or a thing like a boat rudder handle lol I guess it depended on the nature of the user's disability. Most of the ones I saw had handle bars, although there was an old boy who used to live near to my parents who has one with a 'tiller'.  |
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