TWC the Invacar - Wake up and drive

[@geoffrowlands3137]

They don't have the letter C in Welsh?!😮

[@HubNut]

Got my Cs and Ks mixed up. In Cymru...

[@geoffrowlands3137]

@@HubNut Fair enough

[@mrcogginsgarage7062]

I Kant say the letter see Betchington Boventry Bings Bollige Bainbridge you probably know the rest Ian...

[@StreakyP]

How do the Welsh refer to Boris Johnson then?

[@jimg492]

Great to see TWC back out 😊

[@alabar9795]

This guys attitude to life is a goal for all men. He potters about doing his own thing with 100% authenticity and zero hate in his heart. Great bloke!

[@danmccarthy4700]

I couldn't have said it better!

[@DanaTheInsane]

Goal for everybody.

[@Thecrazyvaclav]

I’d be stupidly excited( way more than a man of my age should be) if I ever saw TWC in person , definitely my fave hubnut car

[@simong9067]

I think the proper response would be to shout "It's TWC!" at the top of your voice, then wave your hands in the air like Kermit the Frog. I certainly plan to.

[@Phil-1969]

And mine

[@The-Rectifier]

​@@simong9067 My 2cents❤

[@steveberridge4648]

All jokes aside small, compact runabouts like this are what we need in 2023. Slim enough to squeeze past other traffic on narrow lanes. Far more practical than your typical 2 ton SUV with one occupant in it, going to the shops!!

[@mpersad]

The eagerness of little TWC on the road is always a joy to watch. Here's to a good summer, so that she gets lots of run outs!

[@Phil-1969]

Good old TWC , after all you have put her through Ian , she is still eager to please you . She deserves a year of pampering

[@Bicyclehub]

TWC is the indisputable queen of the fleet. I am always impressed by her reliability and entertaining funny noises.

[@andrewbeer4715]

"I would wind her up to 60, but it's very windy today and I might die" I nearly choked on my drink when you said that! True but hilarious 😂

[@r1lark]

Good to see TWC again -- she's the reason I started watching and subscribed to your channel!

[@alastairward2774]

The rear quarter looks surprisingly sporty, the flared wheel arches, the hint of fins around the rear lights, the slanted rear window...

[@davidthehillbilly7995]

Even though getting her CVT sorted was a ballache of epic proportions, it was worth it. Thanks for preserving this bit of history and remember, the body work can proceed with the gearbox on the floor....

[@alansorbie4038]

I remember these puttering around in the ‘80s, I’ve always wondered what they’d be like to drive. Charming, hilarious and terrifying, in equal measure is my conclusion.

[@helge.]

Oh, i love this channel! Greetings from Berlin!

[@KiwiStag74]

Lovely to see the little TWC out and about, mate. Coming up on six years, eh? Blimey! I remember watching you go collect this little car! ...along with one of her sisters, who ended up donating her engine to TWC when TWC's ended up a bit....er.....unusable...after an attempt to remove the distributor went awry. From memory, that field had a few others sitting there as well. I wonder where they went or if they are sitting somewhere that better body panels (and rear wheel hubcaps) could be removed from them...... So, 5.5 years have passed.... Such a surprise to realise it's so long. I'm going to have to look at the back catalogues to see exactly how long its been since I started watching your channel! But I digress..... I do so love that little car and enjoyed watching the adventures she went on with you. In some ways, throwing a coat of paint over the whole car (once the porous nature of the fibreglass and its structural integrity have been assessed, sealed and strengthened /repaired in other areas so the cracks do not reappear) would be appropriate as a thankyou for her service so far, I'm not suggesting a nut-and-bolt restoration or even a multi-thousand pound paint job. Just one that keeps her all one colour and ensures that the fibreglass degradation doesn't happen anywhere else on her body in the future. She certainly must stay that original colour though. All the best

[@TheTrueVoiceOfReason]

From a viewer perspective, this video deserves a ❤ over a 👍. The care you give TWC and the joy she gives you when out and about easily shows us the 2nd highest bond of your channel. I think you know the 1st. So thank you, Ian, for sharing your joy with all of us. May you and the whole Hubnut clan have a wonderful weekend.

[@gg_vard]

TWC is such a unique vehicle with her own character, and speaking of the choke, that TWC in the storm roadtrip is one of my memorable HubNut moments!

[@CauliflowerMcPugg]

Great to see TWC in the sun, such a joyous little car.

[@graemew7001]

No matter how many times you do a video of taking TWC out for a drive I will never tire of them, I love the way she sounds, so pleased the Government didn't manage to get their way and bin them as TWC always reminds me of my Uncle Billy, who had a TWC, hell of a man he is 80 years old and still going strong.

[@Koulis_]

There was an Invicar regularly parked down my road in West London as I grew up. They were always this colour and I'd walk past it as I went to and from school.

[@hadtopicausername]

It is perhaps not a coincidence that my favourites in your fleet are all air cooled: TWC, Giselle and Elly.

[@TonyCottrell-iv2qv]

Great to see Twc out again. Might have seemed a bit slow 25 years ago, but nowadays, roads full of 40mph everywhere drivers, you have no trouble keeping up!

[@sigurbjornl]

Something oddly relaxing about going for a ride-along in the Invocar in the lovely Welsh landscape with a nice narrator, sure to put a smile on your face.

[@sonnyoldenburger51]

Thanks just a gift Ian

[@HubNut]

Thank you!

[@martinneumann7783]

I do like the sound of these two austrian cylinders, giving their best… Nice to see you in Tuc again. 🌻🤗🌻

[@aston-martin-internationalist]

Very fond of this car. I sat in her at Goodwood when I was displaying my 300zx Twin Turbo and followed the story with great interest. Can't wait to see her with new paint. Having a disabled father who makes use of the Motability scheme (he never had an Invacar), but we often talk about the one we used to see in Glastonbury until around the late 90s.

[@waynekerrgoodstyle]

Awww it's just great to see *TWC* once again! I just love that car! 😍

[@neilbernardo9529]

love seeing twc back out always brings a smile to my face

[@linseyyoung1772]

My favourite Hubnut car - we love you TWC! ❤❤❤

[@redfred70]

Man and machine in perfect harmony. Now we're motoring! Great to see TWC out and about, happy days and for me, the essence of the channel ! Hope to see her at Bas Vegas one day !

[@johnalees99]

I have always thought a modern version of TWC would make an excellent commuter car for the vast majority of people rather than a 2 ton SUV. Also thank you for saying to no to ableism and discriminatory language in the comments.

[@davidwalker9960]

Cheers for that one Ian I well remember the ringing sound of the clutch shoes hitting the bell housing its amazing the memories that sound brings back, great adventures even did Harewood hill climb in Leeds. Drove mine for around 5 years

[@volt8684]

Yeah you can hear it on some mopeds

[@nicholasdavis657]

There's something about seeing you out in TWC that always cheers me up. Just such a loveable car and she clearly means so much to you.

[@BrooksterMax]

My Great Uncle had one of these well into the late 90s. He would visit us in Pembrokeshire from West Bromwich in the Invacar. Watching TWCs adventures makes me have so much respect to him for making such long journeys. I know he went on many travels with it. I wish I could talk to him more about his experiences in the car with what I understand now.

[@HubNut]

That's some undertaking!

[@philipdasilva6287]

Such a blast from the past. I remember when I was a young kid, a guy a few doors down had an Invacar, he didn't seem that disabled to me but I knew it was a car for the disabled. Another man on our street was clearly disabled and drove a Daf 44. Because of that I always thought the Daf was a disabled car too. Ohh to be young and blissfully ignorant again 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shepshepherd]

The amount of enthusiasm you have for TWC never ceases to amaze me.

[@captaccordion]

Hi Hubnut. Your tyre pressure gauge appears to be identical to mine. Today, for the second time, my gauge gave weird readings. What happens is that the 2 tiny screws holding the face onto the guts of the unit can unscrew themselves, leaving the face free to rotate into unintended positions. It's an easy fix, but this being the second time, I've now glued them and they won't come out again. So if yours reads oddly, that may be the reason. Cheers.

[@shaunfleming8668]

These were made in the old Greeves motorcycle factory in Thundersley. Aside from motorcycles, Greeves were one of the first companies to manufacture invalid carriages utilising Villiers 2 stroke engines with Siba Dynastart and rubber bush suspension.

[@Phiyedough]

My aunt was a wheelchair user at one stage but she had a converted Berlingo which my uncle drove with her in the back.

[@hughwalker5628]

I've always wanted one of these. No car collection can be complete without.

[@DaveP668]

Good to see the same electric issues as we had on our 2006 Aygo, a Japanese engine vehicle stuffed with French electrics. Heater fan motor and dodgy wiper stalk connection, we also had dodgy central locking from brand new which failed later in life. Despite these issues (and the leaks) I still see the car at almost 17 years old.

[@jaymz9815]

I just love this little car. Got my Hub Nut key ring & new TWC t-shirt today cheers all

[@terraplane49]

The first ones I saw had Villiers engines, and were built by Greeves in Thundersley, Essex.

[@HubNut]

Yup, we've been to the factory!

[@clivequinn8978]

1968 helped an old guy, Mr. Heath, he had a battery version of TWC which had a blown charging circuit fuse, showed 72 volts but nothing going to the batteries. He broke down three miles west of Stratford Upon Avon. I pushed him for about a mile with my bicycle in the other hand. Eventually a motorist stopped and towed him back home.

[@daniellee9015]

Absolutely brilliant video Ian ❤️ 👍 lovely seeing her out always nice to see tuc and always a reminder of a better time when cars were made proper brilliant

[@anthonystevens8683]

What a brilliant video of TWC having a play out on the open road in the sunshine. She's such a lovely car with a great personality that has a place in history not just because she's a car but provided transport for so many who would be unable to get around during those times. My model TWC that I got from the store will have to see this one. Many thanks for sharing Ian. Even on not so good days videos like this bring a smile.

[@davidrumming4734]

I saw the rainstorm video. What surprised me us that… 1. When in good mechanical condition it can do 60mph 2. It corners as well as it does. I remember as a very young child on hols on U.K. south coast, seeing a whole line of these is designated parking spaces by the sea front. By pure chance one of my work colleagues asked me about these last week, so I forwarded the rainstorm video. I knew they were fibre glass. He looked it them up on eBay and found one for a fraction under £1,000…now just shy of £2,000 on Friday. Surely a future collectible.

[@sammydingdong4540]

I used to have a Bond Imp and after that a Daf or Volvo 66 and everyone laughed at me especially at the Bond Imp but that flew like the wind especially over Bolton moor in the thick snow going to work in the 1970's.....................🤠

[@anthonyobersteller1556]

Ian Tuck is my favourite car in your fleet I have the tee shirt and 2 models of the in a car please get the body work done what a little trooper she is.

[@volt8684]

The speedo reminds me of my early skoda estelles? Steyr ouch used to make 3 speed handlebar shift pedal start mopeds around mid 70s

[@fhwolthuis]

I wouldn't mind leaving some patina on the bodywork but she really needs her rims painted and some new chrome bezels around the headlights 😀👍🏻

[@josephmifsud8261]

Great little car. Glad this and others have survived. Seen only one in real life. At least it gave people some sort of motorbility.

[@andrewentwistle515]

It is great fun to see Tuc once more on the channel & once more bringing a smile to Ian's face.😊😊

[@garethjudd5840]

Your video adventures with TWC are some of my favourites. 👍

[@hoyhoytoo6772]

💯 A great video, Ian. TWC is the first thing that I saw on your channel and what made me subscribe. Really happy to get her update and looking forward to more of the same. It’s obvious that you are very happy when you are driving her (or Ellie) Thank you.

[@ginggur17]

This car still intrigues me, I’m like you, I recall them on the roads in my childhood. 👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@paulwatts2192]

Nice to see the old girl back on the road. You must have a big smile when you are behind the wheel/ handle bar.

[@BarryAllenMagic]

Great to see TWC flying again Ian. If you do intend to spruce the old girl up this year, just a quick reminder. I'm pretty sure that about 5 years ago, you showed us that someone had sent you some new, gleaming front headlight chrome rims (the current ones look just a tad crusty!) No doubt you remember yourself - but with so many odds and sods that you've accumulated over the years, I thought maybe you had forgotten them.

[@theflatcapcyclist]

I absolutely remember that there was an invacar in my home town, it was always parked outside either the church hall or the post office. The colour just instantly brings back the memories :) and it’s true they always did look tatty back in the day

[@murrieteacher]

What an amazing little car. Never had anything like this in Oz. Thanks for the video Ian.

[@Mercmad]

We had something similar ,lightburn zeta .

[@vsanti83]

That means we have a 5 yr anniversary. I've been watching since you picked her up in that Luton van. Happy anniversary to us 😁

[@andrewthompsonuk1]

I spent 2 months travelling Wales, Scotland and England in 1984. I remember spotting Invercars in almost every area including New Quay. (from the back of a poverty spec Metro City)

[@HowardLeVert]

Always a joy to see TWC - that's made my day 😃 I see someone on the swearily-named forum is delighted that a hitherto-unknown to him vehicle has surfaced - a Harper, I think? Again, 197cc but of distinctive styling. I hope someone saves it.

[@Bucharestguidedtours]

TWC is my fleet favourite, I think I came to this channel with the original collection caper of TWC. Best wishes from the BGT.

[@binkyboobosh1]

The most loved HubNut car. Considering the stigma that went with these cars back in the day, it's nice that one is being used for fun. At football matches and other sporting evets, you would often see these little cars back from the touchline, allowing the drivers to watch events in the dry....but also in isolation. It was well meaning, but it probably added to the stigma....At local matches I go to, people with physical issues get to sit in the front row...in the rain...with the rest of us and that seems right if you're a fan...

[@chuckmaddison2924]

Love it, an absolute iconic British classic.

[@johnshaw4140]

I remember seeing them when I was a kid , I recognise the engine tone too , wonderfull that you've saved one Ian

[@chrisbury4635]

First impressions is that the injectors on your Berlingo are worn and leaking back, I'd be doing a leak back test to determine which one or one's are worn, be worth checking the glow plugs while you're at it as the ecu still uses these when required 😊

[@exileinderby51]

Lovely to see TWC out on the road again, long may it continue.

[@My02sgd]

A relic from the 60's / 70's we had a company in Brighouse Yorkshire called Donald millers who serviced these by the hundred so you alway saw one in town. Good luck keeping her going. 😊

[@RWBHere]

I was waiting for you yo walk out of that motor factors place with grease and some Invacar drive belts!

[@davidlovatt2335]

Wonderful to see TWC back in action and out on a drive with Ian. In an age when the majority of modern cars have aggressive front ends TWC's is totally the oppposite. It looks happy if that makes sense and is charming and endearing. I look foward to more TWC content this year.

[@H4lminator]

Great video! And old fashioned HubNut adventure.

[@micheltebraake7915]

The good old days. I started following you from the video of you picking up TWC and the other Invacar with the truck.

[@allanriches9381]

Glad you moved the axle stand as I could see shin meeting stand.

[@send2mc]

It's so good to see you out in TWC again. ☺️

[@fokkovisser]

Hi Ian! Love your videos, watch them all. The last video missing the microphone, I loved more because of all the engine noises. Your rhode microphone has some noise cancelling on 😭 didn't hear the ringing of the clutch bell and the starter was not heard either. The noisy compressor come through though ( so much for noise cancelling 🤨)

[@HubNut]

Thanks. You can't hear the starter because it's just an electric motor - no gears like a conventional starter. I can hear the ringing sound clearly watching it back.

[@jazzfan6]

Your devotion to that cute little vehicle is, well, "touching" pretty well covers it.

[@schon74]

My dad had a few in the early 70s,think he crashed one lol ,he ignored the no passengers sticker on the dash and used to make my mum sit on the floor 😂I subbed to hubnut just after you got twc 😁

[@DavidBrown-lv6ox]

I hate to give advice when it hasn't been asked for.. however when you are pouring liquid from a can it is much easier to control and direct the flow if you have the outlet at the top rather than the bottom. I hope that makes sense. First class episode as ever.

[@HubNut]

Yeah, considered that but there really isn't room to get the can in that way. Access to the filler is pretty tight.

[@brianfreeman8290]

In the mid 70s, I was an instructor with the British School of Motoring, to which all these people had to go to be taught to drive these government issued monstrosities. It was work I enjoyed, largely because the people worked so hard, and I was aware that, once successful, they were given a freedom they had never experienced, so I would volunteer to be their tutor. The damn things would never start, so I became accustomed to turning up at the address, and having to tinker with it to get it going. As it was only a single seater, the only practical way I could teach was to squat in the open doorway, and hang on to the back of the seat. The Police, who frequently stopped us to see what the hell I was doing, were very understanding ! In Hornchurch, Essex, was an old Battle of Britain base, and I would use this for early lessons, but then it was out into the traffic. I remember one cantankerous old gentleman, who had been a nightmare to teach, had reached a reasonable standard, so I told him to follow my school car, and I would lead him though Hornchurch town. I clearly remember my horror as I watched the carnage unfold in my mirror. He was so erratic that cars were swerving to avoid him, and, I do not exaggerate here, seven or eight minor collisions, none of which involved him, took place in the space of a few ghastly minutes. I remember thinking 'Keep going. Just don't stop!'

[@harrygiles1098]

Great video, and shared to my fb page

[@grahamtanner559]

When you said tidy up I nearly fell off my seat😊

[@adamlee3772]

Great video, CVT transmission on mainstream cars was in the DAF, then the Fiesta and Uno got the same units in them in early 87 IIRC. but you’re a braver man than me getting to 50mph in it. I also had no idea they lasted in to the 21st century on the roads in UK.

[@HubNut]

Fiesta and Uno were some of the first cars to use the new steel belt version of the CVT.

[@adamlee3772]

@@HubNut I think so. I think the transmission was developed by a Dutch company called Van Doorne I think, (please correct me if I am wrong), but they got in to financial difficulty during the development so Ford and Fiat took over. Great videos. I shared your Skoda videos with a friend who is now also a subscriber.

[@pizzalover3]

Great sounding engine and gearbox. So much character.

[@m3hnl]

wonderful to see twc back out ian she sounds lovely well done

[@kadi7471]

..I’ve seen one of these a couple of months ago in Sheffield in a busy traffic..unfortunately didn’t see the reg number but it looked like it was freshly restored in that dove blue colour..I never seen it in real life before 😎👍

[@RichieRouge206]

It was lovely to see and hear TWK again! Her cacophony of noises are her voice! Be nice too some TLC lavished on her - a true survivor!

[@dadawoodslife]

"Don't tell me in the comments!" Brilliant. Yes, I'm old enough to remember those days.

[@nicklaing656]

I'm sure I remember from the sixties a news piece featuring an invacar navigating in and out of traffic cones laid out in a straight line. The driver was none other than Sterling Moss,the purpose of the whole thing was to prove the stability of the machine. If Sterling can race it,so can you!

[@martinphillips9686]

Well done ian its good to see tuc out and about again give her a good run or 100 this year please

[@allanriches9381]

Those belts looked like they were going to pop off the pulley when you were trying to start tuk

[@barrycarleton4326]

This one is better than the old ones that I used to strip, they had a 197cc Villiers dynastart engine which was used in a lot of bubble cars, so there was a demand for those. You said this one has the Steyr Puch engine from Austria?

[@HubNut]

Correct. A lot more power! Arguably too much...

[@robames1293]

I look at those body cracks and think how easy it would be to fix. She's the flower of the fleet.

[@alanlansdell7533]

Fills me with joy.

[@chrisrumble2665]

We've all been missing TWC!

[@bentullett6068]

I love air-cooled engines. Apart from when a V-twin one fitted on one of those zero turn ride on mowers decides to backfire on your leg when it decides it does not want to start cold. Yes that happened to me and its quite terrifying.

[@frothe42]

Nice to see TWC out and about!

[@daviemaclean61]

What a coincidence! Or koinkidenke judging by the comments section. Had the card out from my Oxford Diecast TWC to scan the Hub Nut logo. There will eventually be a Hub Nut garage and service station on my layout

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Great to see TWC out again, one of my favourites on the fleet alongside Elly and Betty

[@stuartmcdonald5772]

That bell noise is exactly the same as the bell the girls would ring in my local Woolworths back in the 70's when they didnt know the price of something 😮and those little blue inva cars would scare the life out of me as they drove along, so loud for a wee boy

[@paulgiles6096]

Love TUC❤ great to see her out n to he sunshine❤️