[cctalk] Re: Classic computing - earliest years

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Paul Koning wrote: Those are wonderful! three wheel, two seater, passenger behind driver, After the war, Messerschmitt couldn't build planes, but had the tooling to make a great bubble canopy cockpit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200 Isetta: Was designed by an Italian refrigerator company, and looks it. The door is on the front like a refrigerator. The one that I rode in, the door wouldn't stay latched (like my refrigerator) Four wheels, but rear are VERY close together; variants with a single rear wheel were made for places where motorcycle registration was quite a bit easier. BMW made and sold them until they decided to make CARS. The r@re Isetta "limousine" adds a side door on the right, and room for a person in the back seat. https://www.mecum.com/lots/1144172/1958-bmw-isetta-600-limousine/ Check out the Microlino, https://microlino-car.com/en-us/microlino a modern, electric, imitation Isetta! No apparent plans for USA :-( -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com