Invacar invasion and Foxanne at the HubNut Social! 10th June 2023 

It was us in the Corsa so thanks for the mention. It was a great event but sadly had another appointment so had to leave early. The good news today is that my son passed his theory test. One step closer to him taking ownership of the Corsa.

That early invacar is a fantastic relic of the era. Truly museum-worthy.

Thanks for a great day out! (MK4 Mondeo Owner) 😊

My first Hubnut Social - a brilliant event! So welcoming and inclusive.

Nice to see Foxanne again! A Hubnut social in the East of England would be great :D

Good to the fox again the new owner is looking after her!

Early invacar looks like a cartoon alien with those bonkers rear lights. I expect the designer was thinking more '59 Cadillac. Superb.

That tiller steering looks utterly terrifying!

My first HubNut social as well. I really enjoyed it: thanks for organising! Mine was the white Volvo 740 estate.

Thanks again for hosting this event, myself and Brian (the Invacar 12e) had a great adventure that day.

Thanks, again, HubNut for organising splendid weather for a splendid day at a wonderful venue. Lots of chat ensued. Mine was the XF.

Absaloutly brilliant video Ian miss hubnut ❤👍 absaloutly fantastic cars and those inva cars absaloutly spectacular condition brilliant

An enjoyable day out for us at an excellent venue. Such a nice mix of cars both old and young. We caught up with and followed the early J plate invacar for a while when we left the event. It was nice to meet you again Ian and to meet Carly for the first time. My grandson was extremely pleased to have met and spoken to mini- HubNut. Thanks for organising the event. Hopefully we will be able to attend the next social whenever and wherever that maybe

That Porsche 928 was stunning. Beautiful colour.

Had a splendid day! Thank you both for arranging everything

A great video now it’s really nice to see Foxanne again now also 👍👍

Really enjoyed the day, and the venue was great too.

oooh the trabbie, when I was rebuilding East Germany in 1990 it was littered with abandoned trabbies from the East Germans fleeing to the West when the wall came down. We picked one each and used them as daily transport, repairing and improving them incase their owners ever returned but they didn't and we left them there in pristine condition after our 3 year stint. Great little cars.

I took my Son up for our first Hubnut social in the green E46 Touring with rusty wings, it normally does a 4 mile commute and tip runs etc but did the 340 mile round trip averaging 58.3mpg which I thought was pretty good, we can be seen early in the video chatting to the lovely couple with the brown Astra Estate 1.6 8 valve, a great car and thoroughly enjoyed talking with them, all in all a very social social and a great day out.

Nice tour of all the cars, while I enjoyed my evening tea in my "Elly" tea mug!

Thank you Ian. My first meet up and looking forward to more like it. Will definitely be coming again. But what a nice place. (I was in the amarok)

I love the model 12's Steve Zodiac styling

Thanks Ian was a exellent meeting my first .. felt welcome lovely to meet you and Carly and junior hubnut.... hope exames /revision went well for senior... hub nut .. a abundance off new stickers awaiting decent on car at present .... thank you also to the hubnuts who i spoke to a lovely day had by me and my other half .. see you again soon 😊😊😊

Love the Alfa Romeo Giulia and Spider. 😍 Porsche 928s has always been a big favourite of mine.

Thanks for sharing Ian, much appreciated 😊👍

Great video. Great event and thank you for organising. Can't wait for the next one.

Great show and a great video. Say hi to Ellie

The Partner is indeed a genuine (and my) Escapade, aka Wilbert. Now with added roof rack for extra moving capabilities 🙂

Thank you Ian for a great day out , mine was the Accord with the bonnet up . Good to see Foxann again , hopefully you can have a drive of the early Invacar .

oh my god i actually saw the little blue reliant fox drive past me as i was leaving the town!! i was so baffled by how it even got there and where it was even going, i was taking my new car out for a test spin after having failed immensely at parking it lol

This was my first HubNut social, a great day out in the sun with a wide selection of cars plus access the historic vehicles on site too. Most of all a friendly collective of like-minded people and a chance to natter with the HubNut family and peruse some merch. I was the chap that lent you the slightly ineffective Miss HubNut-height parasol for the merch table 😊.

Love it

Hello hubnut it was nice to meet you and your family on Saturday thank you for a nice day out.

We turned up in the Crafter camper van, but we were told to park up at the back. Understandable, it's not a show vehicle, we were just passing on our way back from holiday. Was great to finally get along to one of your socials.

Fantastic day Ian & Co. Brilliant venue, first visit and first hubnut social. Looking forward to the next one. Cheers 👍 (Citroën Berlingo owner)

The BMW i3 has an insanely good turning circle. Most useful. Loving the Trabant noises at the end

Thoroughly enjoyed it and great to catch up with you! Now to decide what to take to FOTU....

I just watched this with my son and he was so excited to see my Jimny being looked at by a famous youtuber!

The Trabant shot at the end: very consistent. If the car smokes, so too should the driver :)

Great video some amazing cars at the meet

Great walk-around Ian, my red XFS Sportbrake will be getting a big head at this rate as its the second time its been on RU-vid though the first time it was a full review by PetrolPed. the top of my head has only just stopped flaking from the hot sun at the HubNut social 😳 But thanks for organising such a great event and I had some really good chats with nice people ☺

another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍

I can't wait for another social.

Great to see so many nice cars.

Lovely eclectic mix, good to see And FoxAnne too

Excellent little video of whatt looks like a very hot day at the social, great to see such a variety of cars, if I had to pick a favourite it would be Lord Bungles Escort.

Loved my first HubNut Social, really is about the people and not the cars. If you do go back there or one nearer South Wales then I'll definitely be coming along to that one if I can. Might even manage to bring one of my cars this time...

So happy to see Foxanne is on the road and is it taken care of Thanks Nino🎉 Interesting invacar info, too

Looks like an amazing day, hope to come along to a future event. Please, please do a review of that early invacar, looks fascinating and terrifying!

I'm following foxannes new owner now Ian, it's great to see her again. Aussie Graham

How in ruddy hell did I miss this? I'm only an hour from it! Makes me want to continue the hunt for a MK1 Twingo in France even more as neither of my current fleet are particularly 'Hubnut'. Great selection! Particularly liked the Ami and the 'Ivacar' -Invacar!

Love the stying of that MK 12 Invacar

On the same day, about 7 hours behind you, I was volunteering to help with my club's local car show, the All-Ford show, in Hillsboro, Oregon USA. We had a small contention of Fords from the other side of the pond at ours, including a Ford Anglia, several Cortinas, and a few Capris ( not super uncommon here, as the Capri was sold as the Mercury Capri here from the mid 1970's until 1979, when the new Mercury Capri became a re-badged Foxbody Ford Mustang with a unique bubble back hatch). Also, a Mark I Escort set up as a rally car, in RHD 😊

Thanks for the video social greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Great video Ian

Awesome! The Invacar Invasion of two examples: frightening! 😄 The smokey East German Noise Box: delicious. And all the other cars: quite good. Must have been a nice HubNut Social...

Thanks for the clip at the end of the Trabant running( "running"?) - a whole symphony of mechanical dissonance; wonderful.

Honda Jazz with i-DSI is intelligent-Dual Sequential Ignition or two spark plugs per cylinder.

KPU was like the one my dad had

The second attempt at pronouncing Puch is spot-on, congratulations! Yesterday I was looking at a very nice Daihatsu Charade when all of a sudden a Suzuki Wagon R drove past. Not a combination you see that often anymore! Later the same day I spotted an Opel Corsa A, now at least 30 years old as well.

Nice to see the strength of the channel isn’t it. Getting a very good turn out.

Yeah ive been keeping up with Foxannes adventures , glad shes still on the road and weird to see other TWCs on the road

Must not cross those streams, Mr Seabrook! Thank you ever so much indeed again for the invitation, maybe if there is another event relatively close by, I could bring the Volvo 460 GLE to it?

If only you’d got the earlier Invacar…awesome to have both models

The design of that Alfa Romeo is just breathtaking.

Good to see Foxanne l have been watching Foxanne Folleys and a great selection of cars and that first model Invicar how different it is to TWC l did enjoy the look at it

Lovely exhaust note on the Earl;y invacar, with the villiers engine. Put me in mind of the Bond which also had a villiers engine, but with a kickstart. Wonderful.

*The early Invacar is a very neat little machine, I remember there used to be an open-top version of something like that parked outside flats in Llandudno in the late 1980s, often wished that I had paid it a closer look*

Fun report of your own event, great walkaround of a nicely filled carpark! Perhaps you can aquire a FOS Special for your 'HubNut In Trade' videos? Maybe do a giveaway of some sorts with the insurance event sponsor :) From memory it was Lancaster. (if still applicable for this years festival) Thank you as always, that green colour on the 75 👍

I'm pleased to see a few people like the colour of my Arona!

Cool🥰

I is good to see kpu 147j it is like the one my dad had.

That looks like an awesome meetup. Sadly too far for me to be there, maybe one day.

I would absolutely love to see you test drive a Trabant. Something tells me that would be quality hubnuttery.

Ian - you guys should definitely do more of those HN socials. I’d be great 👍

You completely missed out a row. Never mind, it was a good mix.

my wife has one of those Seat Aronas FR on a 72 plate with DSG gear box fitted with hand controls

Good to see Foxanne again.

Wish id have paid more attention to your earlier vids . i only live 20 miles from Ciren , i would have come up there in my battered 03 Yaris .LOL.

That Volvo Amazon though........minilites FTW ❤

Look's like you had a great day out

I’ll definitely take one of the Austin A35s. They’re so cute.

I also used to own the original Wagon R + it was a 1.3 litre 85bhp fast in a straight line but very Robin reliant in the corners regularly broke track rods as the strain in corners due to that raised ride height was too much lol And the fuel filler cap leaked which resulted in a fire at a petrol station once in High Wycombe , thankfully it did not set the whole station ablaze lol , Only paid £300 for it so was a bargain in 2014

Ben's already beaten me to it on the 197cc correction, so ill up the pedantry :) to point out that even the Invacar Mk12E that Brian KPU147J is, has AC influence in that the front suspension is of the AC designed Model 70 Parallelogram leading arm setup, the Ministry liked what it saw from the then still in development Model 70, and forced it through onto all Villiers and Electric machines (bar the Tippen Delta) if you had a closer look you will have seen the same front suspension as seen on VJN and TWC, and even the same Spax adjustable coil-over :) although otherwise indeed the Invacar Mk12 in general was Invacar's last homegrown effort, and it is really awesome to see you get to have a quick look around Brian! I wish that segment was longer! I still want to see that full hubnut review!

It took a little while to find the venue as my car satnav just took me to Cirencester, fortunately I'd Googled the location so I knew it was wrong, My phone guided me the rest of the way. so all good in the end. A great day out Ian, all very friendly and great to talk to people who I'd never met before including the new owner who adopted Foxanne who I rattled on about motorbikes of the 1980's (sorry), I didn't catch his name. I'm terrible with names. It was also great to talk to Carly and your good self in 3D as opposed to seeing 2D versions on RU-vid. A huge thanks for arranging this and I think this could be the very 1st time my car has been filmed on YT, it's not a classic by some margin but would fit right in with the Festival of the Unexceptional. And I now have a 'Triangle of Doom' T-shirt that fits me better than my other HubNut T-shirts since I seem to have inflated over the years.

Love the maroon astra mk4/g

First glance and I thought that the Bond Bug had gone full "Gulf Oil". Also of note, that so-70s phlegm green Trabant.

The controls on Invacars varied to some degree according to the disability of the person given to, left or right arm controls or even foot pedals if the person was one legged and one armed. Don't think they ever made one for someone with no arms, that would have been ingenious to say the least. A lot of recipients were Thalidomide victims. Most with missing or damaged limbs opted for the conversion grant for a car as not banned from Motorways or restricted to 30 MPH.

Great day out, had to leave early as I had to pick up my 89 year old dad and treat him to dinner. Paul in the red Renault Clio.

Nothing weird about the Smart with a towing contraption, it's likely there because it was flat towed behind a motorhome. That's a pretty common sight in this part of the world. Invacar's Invacar with the tiller control looks like it must be terrifying to drive. Can we expect a HubNut road test sometime in the future ?

👍👍

Aldi carpark on a Wednesday in Stowmarket

Hehe - that older version of the Invacar looks like something you would find in the eastern European childrens puppet shows that Swedish television was so keen on showing back when I grew up in the 70s 😅 (Sweden was a very, very "red" country back then...) I do love the colour and shape of the 928 - top notch 1970s design right there and the more modern wheels does not make it look and less gorgeous! And don't be afraid to do a real road test of a BMW i3 - very nice! The only reason I'm not getting myself one of those at some point is that I just can not see myself owning a BMW, since most other BMWs are owned by people I frankly don't care for - at all... (but I am having a collection caper of another EV-pioneer this friday which incidentely will make me a 2-car owner - you are having a bad influence on me! - the Modus will enjoy the luxury of being my enthusiast car, while it's younger sister will do all the comuting...)

Familiar image, seeing Ian running around at a car show.

i-DSi dual spark ignition= 8 sparkplugs!

My Wifes 57 Fiesta has a terrible triangle of doom. My KA+ has not. Lots of lovely cars the older invader was a very strange design.

Looked a great show, I've never seen , even back in the day, the older style Invacar, great restoration. Best wishes , great stuff. Additional - The Porsche 928, is that the one with the rear sun visors, or is it an urban myth?

I have villiers 2 and 4 strokes on my channel, my favourite engine😎

Hair cut time Ian , but the first invacar looking like a Cambalwick green car.

I can't see one of those Austins and not thing about a certain stop motion animation "Eh Trey save some for us will ya!"