19 Oct
2025
19 Oct
'25
9:37 a.m.
Interesting fact: the Messerschmitt did not have a reverse gear. Instead,
you turned off the ignition, pushed the key in, and started the engine
backwards.
I watched one get out of a tight parking space once; with its rather wide
turning radius it took several iterations of start, stop, restart etc.
Funny little car in many ways, wish I had one ;-)
On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Paul Koning wrote:
For tiny, try this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200 I remember someone
down the road from where I grew up had one. Funny looking things.
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 :-(
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com