View Full Version : Not Nova related, but I"ll give you a Tip(pen)...
...it's a Pommy Micro car, but this one is in Oz (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=130495584313&Category=101895).
I thought it might interest some here due to the esoteric taste of cars we tend to have, and it's a Pommy vehicle.
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Wow, they used to be such a common sight over here, but it was made illegal to drive them on the roads here in 2003, so most of them were crushed. Its sad really, there's one in the Coventry Transport Museum.
I'm guessing that because they're so tiny and don't have any safety features?
Possibly, but I think it was more to do with the Government of the time wanting to get everyone onto Motability i.e. adapted production vehicles. You couldnt ever buy an Invacar, they were owned by the Government and only leased out to drivers. Therefore when the government called them all back in, you didnt have a choice, and off to the crushers they went!
Motability is a 2 billion pound a year industry, the little leased out mobile chicanes were not! And I think they were safer than an able bodied driver in a Sinclair C5 :)
Ah ok. We never had anything like that over here, not as far as I know. If you are disabled, you get a wheelchair taxi, or maybe buy a wheelchair modified vehicle of your own or one with disabled modified driving equipment (relocated hand throttle, etc).
Or have a few strong family members. lol
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