Invacar - Birmingham to Wales - including Motorway!
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Apologies for the sound - I had earplugs in, and found it very hard to judge how loud to speak... But this video covers the 130-mile journey from the NEC in Birmingham, back to mid-Wales. I even tackled some motorway! TWC took it all in her stride. No matter what I ask of this blue, three-wheeled oddity, designed for wheelchair users, she just gets on and does it. Well done TWC.
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British motorways in an Invacar. Evel Knievel eat your heart out!
I grew up in an era when you'd see Invacars everywhere - even on the track at the football. Your love for that little car makes me smile.
TWC is a little trooper. Does brilliantly considering she was designed to pop to the shops a couple of times a week 😁.
We look forward to the next adventure 👍
I was behind you at J9 on the M42. I was amazed at how fast the little car took off
Oh how I love the twc videos it still amazes me how a little car meant for disabled people could cover so many miles keep them twc video coming I just love them
Good old TWC.scary on the motorway .All the best to all at Hub Nut.
Glad to see you both home safe & sound, 60mph looked like 120mph scary. 😱
I'm surprised you managed to be so restrained with a whole empty hall of the NEC at your disposal. I was expecting to see some TWC indoor hooning.
The TWC adventures definitely remind me of taking a Twizy on a dual carriageway, although it had no doors!
On the Multipla I still think
- Stick her in a museum with some info about her and lots of Hubnut plugs about her person
- Fill her place on the fleet with a Skoda Roomster.
Lovely to meet you, TWC and Giselle properly at the weekend and thanks for reminding me to actually take my purchases with me. Got a bit starstruck!
Had a car once that gave me no end of trouble and I said it would make a great boat anchor. Multipla boat anchor……🤔. Starstruck…funny.
Well done TWC that engine sounds like a mini jet engine on that journey enjoyed the show thanks Ian !
Good job to TWC! She would've loved that long drive for sure, very impressed that it can do motorway speeds
Twc prooves " it ain't what you do it's the way that you do it!"
Peace and love brother 👍🏻☮♥️
She was absolutely flying, amazing little car.
I just love these videos - longer trips in the quirky old cars.
Good to see old cars out in all weathers, the motorway looked pretty scary mind
Magnificent drive back home, the tiny but mighty TWC 'bombing' down the road towards HubNut HQ with her enthusiastic and alert driver, thank you :)
I used to see these wee motors everywhere when I was a kid!
I suppose that was inevitable, as I lived near the Benfleet factory, where they were made!!
My eldest (late) brother, Colin, even worked there for a couple of years, in the late 60's!
Unfortunately I haven't watched any of your videos for a while! But it's great to see little TWC in action again. Many thanks.
I thought this was the definition of bravery: “courageous behaviour or character.” You just redefined it!! Hats off to you!!!
If they made a TWC motorway video game I'd buy it immediately!!
YES! Ian, time to diversify!
Lol that container wagon overtake was hilarious! 😨😆😆😆 "The Dilithium crystals can't take anymore!" Indeed. The headlights are like my eyes after several pints of Thatcher's!😵😆
Accolades for TWC! She never ceases to amaze.
When you go for top speed and it starts shaking I get flash backs to Donald Campbell on Lake Coniston 🙈👍
What an accomplishment and achievement to make a round trip of this length in this car. A combination of Luck, Bravery and Skill 👍👍
Roads in every country fix it brand new. Then dig up months later to put pipe under the suface or something else. Good trip TWK again she makes me smile 😃
When you were overtaking that blue truck, for some reason a line from one of the many 'Thomas the Tank Engine' books I used to read to my son as a child, came to mind. I can't remember which of the books it was, nor can I remember which engines said it but it went, "You can do it, you can do it.". Little TWC has the heart of a lion!
Loved the in ininvacar footage on the road home , you were ringing it's neck 😃
It's amazing how smooth sounding the drivetrain is in Twc, even if it is noisy. It hums along nicely on the main roads.
That's awesome Ian. Modern vehicles take all the fun of an adventure away! It reminds me when I used to have a moped at 16. Every trip was an adventure and you could feel the environment around you. A trip from Kendal to my Grandparents in Manchester was exactly the same. Dangerous but so much fun! Definitely a sense of achievement and distance in getting there. 🙂
The Mk1 Multipla is already an established classic. Odd, fun, quirky and brilliant.
I never realised how much I'd love to watch Hub Nut doing a play of Euro Truck Simulator.
I'd have put money on Ian driving a [dreaded] Renault, not a Scania! 😁 (Long-standing Squirrel meme, btw).
TWC a wonderful, she did really well. Glad you took her to the show.
Brilliant little car,enjoy watching its adventures.
I'm like that too. I tend to see beauty in function, pick the runt of the litter, and usually end up with the best.
You are a brave man Ian! I would be scared to drive that contraption round my back yard let alone on a motorway lol 😆
You can't better a flat twin at speed - Michelin X's are the icing on the cake 😊
I watched all of your showing the carshow showcars what a marvelous show it was, thanks so much!
Brilliant, well done. My favourite of the fleet, and what a journey.
RAC rally next week weekend. At Welshpool on Sunday. Full of old historic rally cars
Brilliant videos of show and Tucs journey
Good to see you back safe and sound, I recognised the route past Newtown, from many years ago.
Inspirational stuff. I'm living my adventures vicariously through you just now Ian. Enjoyed your weekend from the comfort of my home. Twc is an amazing vehicle, no wonder you get tooted at on the motorway.
TWC is all heart. What a fantastic little engine the Steyr Puch is. I think your oil may be emerging from the base of a pushrod tube seal as the rocker cover gasket should be pretty easy to get oil-tight, and there is not that much oil inside.
Check the fuel and fill it up with oil. 😀
A very enjoyable video really enjoy on the onboard footage in little Tuc well done 👍
Well done little TWC and well done Ian for making the trip 👌
Nearly 50 years old, designed to drive in to the nearest town to carry shopping
But NO!!, The old girl knocks off around 300 miles and sounded like she wanted more.
I guess you didn't, but thanks for the footage and more so, your bravery in bringing her to the NEC so we could all see the little legend 👍👍
Love your slight bashfulness about the Multipla.
Well done little TWC.
Glad to see the transmission held out for you. There's no rush for the next video as you deserve a rest after your 'flat-out' week at NEC. Take it easy mate.
Loved the drive, glad to be able to catch one of your videos again Ian 😃
...and there you go. Absolutely tremendous. In essence, did exactly the same job as any £100,000 + supercar would have done. A to B, but much more of an adventure. Love it. Well done you, well done the little blue beaut'.
Well done looks pretty quick !
Man, I am soooo envious of your lovely roads. Our roads here are so bad they make me cry. And my bum too.
Super video, Ian. Thanks very much. Great to see you and TWC out and about.
Such a great noise! Really enjoyed the trip, thanks for taking us along 👌
It was a delight to sit in TWC for a moment, and better appreciate your nerve.
Was great to finally see you on Saturday. Picked up a calendar and a pin badge. It was a shame I couldn't of spent longer talking, mainly a quick stop as we were only there the day and there was too much to see. Hope to see you, Matt & Steph next year
Just read an article on a site called 'rusty old rubbish' featuring twc. I remember years ago invalid carriages were once banned from motorways. Having read the article, it clarified that particular class was abolished in 2003 and the vehicles are classed as tricycles. Sorry if you have already mentioned this, but I've learned something new today.
I was surprised they are motorway legal. One thing they'll never be is rusty.
Not only is TWC in there, but TPA as well! I wonder who has REV?
REV belongs to a young lad in London who is fast becoming the go-to resource for all matters Invacar.
Who was it that said "you should do something that scares you every day"? Oh yeah, that great man HubNut.
The juxtaposition of the wonderful little blue thing that you’ve put so much love into, and that hideous pink pile of scrap …..
Another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts
Great video! Glad you got home safely.
The adventures of TWC are so fun.
I imagine it must be a somewhat unique experience doing 60 MPH in that amazing car. Thanks for sharing . makes me laugh all the time.
Well done twc I’ve really enjoyed following your adventures bet you are glad to be home
A deserving well done to that Invacar man .
Great to see you wearing the same T I purchased my dear Wife Sharon ages ago. So pleased the show went well for you and it sounds like you had a great time. I was dying to see Tuc on a Motorway and bless her didn’t see do so well? I’m a child of the very late 1950s and I recall the InvaCar and a motorway signage that back then banned them from Motorways. I’m also sure I had a primary School teacher who I think was in a wheelchair and actually Parked theirs in the School car park. I’d always wondered why they only ever came in Blue! Looking at that classic old speedo and various gauges reminded me of a time when all cars had very few instruments. You were relying on speedo, indicator warning light, maybe handbrake warning light and switches were big clunky rocker things. I hope to take our young niece out in the old Peugeot 207 she brought from us to learn to drive. As I said she took the Hub Nut sticker off but it will be nice to supervise her as a learner maybe this weekend. I have purchased what when I was a Driving Instructor we called an ‘instructor mirror’. Those new Mirrors on TUC must make you feel much safer. I love your appreciation of the everyday things! Almost the mundane, the unexceptional and I guess the quirky. Sharon had a 2 CV and still loves those cars. She often says she would rather have one of them than some modern, top of the range, all singing and dancing box with a wheel on each corner. I really really do get that point. Nothing seems to stand out on the roads now. Over the years it’s all become bland, devoid of fun and almost soulless. It’s a fantasy I know but cars I love have personalities. You can invest in them and they pay you back. You feel just good when you drive them and that kind of car, even now, makes driving a pleasure.
Oh and the Fiat…First Wife and I used to call them the Fiat ‘Milupa’ after a Baby food on the Market when our two Sons were babies. Now in all honesty I actually LIKED them BECAUSE they were so ugly! I liked them because they were just different. They stood out and from what I could tell they/made a great family car (we had a citron Berlingo when the boys were small. It was as aerodynamic as a brick, the boys said never drop them off at School in it, they cringed when they saw it coming but it took us and our family stuff everywhere. We even used it like a van to take building rubble to the tip.
However cost wise I’d say don’t spend more time and money on the Fiat. My Wife is a NORWICH supporter if you want shot of that rear decal! (Oh and my first Wife was a tiny Lady. No bigger than Mrs Hub Nut. When she was pregnant I thought she looked like a ‘weeble’. I still recall being happy but hey, sometimes things change and we all move on.)
Well done little Twc happy that u are home safe aswell
That headlight alignment is just shocking!
Always love the journeys in TWC, especially right at the limit 😁
Great video, thanks Ian! i really like the forward facing camera, makes me feel like im driving!
Aww plucky little TWC - well done!
I love the noise of the clutch
Well done to TWC & to Ian as well, the motorway stretch was a bit scary with the 40 ton artics passing either side!
Awesome headlight beam pattern when you back away from the wall, one up one down! TWC must be winking!
@@Pete1965 could well be that, but it was sooo TWK to be a bit wonky ñ
Bless TWC, it will have done the engine some good that I reckon. Enjoyed that Ian. Thanks
A job well done by you and TWC. Overtaking that lorry at 60mph at the start was truly scary!
Marvelous, bavo Ian and Tuk!
It has to be a treat for others to see TWC going down the road, especially for children and those who don't know what she is. It looked a little scary when you passed that lorry Go TWC!
Really miss the NEC. I was an exhibitor for the good home show in 2006.
The washing machine looks rather interesting.
Great adventure, thanks for sharing. Croeso 'nol.
Have you not seen Ian's other channel WashingMachineNut? 😄
60? sounds and feels like 160! Absolutely brilliant.
I used to get that "overtake and then slow down" behaviour a lot when I drove a Smart car. The attitude seems to be, "I need to get past this funny little car. It's a bit difficult because he's going so quickly so some extra effort needed. Whew - I'm past! Now I can relax and slow down a bit."
Wales is sooo picturesque... would love to go back!
Thank u for another great video, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍
I'd never noticed the Invacar badge before. Reminds me a lot of the Aston Martin badge 😃
Well done, you're a brave man. Back in the day I can remember signs on motorway slip roads that said No vehicles under 50cc or invalid carriages. Has the law changed? I doubt todays Coppers would even know about that.
Thanks for the top tip on the 60 mph speed limit on sections of the Newtown by pass: will keep it in mind when am out and about, ta.
I see your observations on a daily basis being an HGV driver; cars overtaking and then slowing down, people's poor lane discipline, driving in poor conditions with just daytime running lights on. It really is so frustrating. I've actually gotten out of the lorry on a few occasions, say when in London stopped at traffic lights to tell people that they have no lights on.
I think a lot of people rely on automatic headlights these days so permanently disengage the bit of their brain dedicated to thinking about them.
Even sitting comfortably, viewing on a laptop, I feel faintly alarmed merely watching a PoV video driving TUK, especially on a motorway...!
Invacar Wicked Legend another great video
On the west side of the pond they can only pave dry roads. The hot asphalt doesn't stick too well to the lower layers when it is wet.
Glad you are home safely.
Nice to find another BeamNG Drive fan! I bet you love driving the little Pigeon don't you?
LOL I don't think them things were ever designed for long journeys.😂
Another excellent Adventure, TWC done you proud. Wonders what her next adventure will be??
If you go next year Mr HubNut I think it would be good if Miss HubNut passes her driving test. Less stress for you and your cars, next job get her wee car back on the road for her. Really enjoyed the travelling and show videos Mr HubNut.
Well done TWC. ( we met at the show). I'm glad I wasn't the pilot
Great STUFF 'remember
Invacar Well Know route, residing in Shrewsbury atm ,Welsh Rally yrs ago appeared Rossi in Rally Focus & Evans Welsh Winner as myself being my all time faves Cymru am Byth.. Still have my Red GPz Rx 1000 under blankets Bought from Devils Bridge on route to Aberystwyth..lol to you & all close..
We used to call these vehicles Bubble Car Estates when I was a kid!
Remember seeing an invacar often just down the road where I used to live as there were some custom-built bungalows for disabled people...I could do with one now as I've become disabled myself! Ive got an Acadiane now, which fits the bill as I still have enough use of my legs & feet at present to operate a vehicle with a manual gearbox..Read a review on invacars recently & learned theyre can go amazingly quick for what they are!
I have a friend with limited leg use who owns several A Series Citroens. He has hand controls to enable him to drive them. Not sure who makes them though but may be able to find out if it comes to it.
Awesome show! It was awesome to meet you Matt and Steph. Can't wait for next year :D
You also play BeamNG too haha, ive played it for years and its brilliant