Invalid cars - Like reliants

Bug One · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:01

Does anyone else remember those blue invalid cars they used to make. They used to look like mini reliants. Anyone remember what they were called?

moss · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:06

Sure they were just called Invalid carriages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invalid_carriage

edit: little more research, that one pictured on wiki is a AC model 70 invalid carriage

Gojira · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:10

Invacar.

Made by several different manufacturers IIRC

Aargh! I feel old just remembering that :eek:

Alan Woodford

Wicksta · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:28

I think they used to make them near my school in Egham, either that or sell and maintain them there!

jimblowscash · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:40

theres one parked on my mums estate, i wana bike powerd one

Bug One · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:50

jimblowscash said:
theres one parked on my mums estate, i wana bike powerd one

They already do 82 mph!

Rotty · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:52

plastic pigs

that's what they have always been called around here

they were also called **** chariots by some lower life forms :eek:

djjuk · 16 Mar 2007 at 17:59

Rotty said:
they were also called **** chariots by some lower life forms

:giggles

I remember that as well.

The_Dark_Side · 16 Mar 2007 at 19:14

Wicksta said:
I think they used to make them near my school in Egham, either that or sell and maintain them there!

i don't think they were for sale.
i believe they were the forerunner to the motability scheme we have now where they were on loan from the government.
that's why you don't see ANY of them anymore as once motability came in they were all recalled.

how i'd love to V8 one

Akira · 16 Mar 2007 at 21:00

Aye, they were all recalled because iirc they remained the property of the NHS.

http://www.motoringpicturelibrary.com/preview_image.asp?lcID=20&fleID=3707

Bug One · 17 Mar 2007 at 08:17

Yup - apparently they've all been crushed.

The_Dark_Side · 17 Mar 2007 at 09:01

Bug One said:
Yup - apparently they've all been crushed.

now that i haven't heard.
you're kidding?

i'd always had an idle thought of buying one and fitting something silly in the thing then adding wheelie bars, lol.

MrSix · 17 Mar 2007 at 09:14

You'd be a wi-kid inva-lid

The_Dark_Side · 17 Mar 2007 at 09:16

MrSix said:
You'd be a wi-kid inva-lid

i had another nickname in mind which i cannot post due to it being very offensive to disabled people and definitely NOT politically correct.
lol

Dr Who · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:43

The_Dark_Side said:
how i'd love to V8 one

Fag motor, Hayabusa Turbo for the win

The_Dark_Side · 17 Mar 2007 at 11:52

Dr Who said:
Fag motor, Hayabusa Turbo for the win

not a chance.

it'd melt the car

Dr Who · 17 Mar 2007 at 12:52

The_Dark_Side said:
not a chance.

it'd melt the car

On a more serious note, I had an old villiers engined one... we stuck a 210 kart motor in it...

was funny...

Not stable in the slightest

:eek: