Re: [T3] Another air cooled vehicle on the road (no type3)

[Douglas_Brashear@mail.amsinc.com]

Don't forget the 3-wheeled Messerschmidt...you can see it in the movie
"Brazil".  My mom had an Isetta...at one point it threw a valve and my dad
was charged with the repair...dad's dad was a Mopar mechanic, but
absolutely refused to touch the Isetta, calling it "unsafe"...out of pure
desperation, however, my dad did ask his dad for advise in the engine
repair, and grandpa did buckle under and show dad the ropes.  Every once in
a while you'll spot an Isetta on the streets of Manhattan...I think there's
a store in SoHo that has one outside, strictly to promote the store.  I'd
hardly call the Citroen 2CV a microcar, though...I think its more in the
class with the beetle, with the Mini being somewhere in between microcar
and subcompact. :-)

-Doug
69 auto FI square
73 FI fasty
98 NB
douglas_brashear@mail.amsinc.com




                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 



To:   type3@vwtype3.org
cc:    (bcc: Douglas Brashear/AMS/AMSINC)
Subject:  Re: [T3] Another air cooled vehicle on the road (no type3)







The Isetta was one of a flood of mini-cars that put Europe on the road
following
WWII.  Wonderful examples of minimalism were the Fiat 600 and then the 500s
(replacing
the Topolino), the Rennault 4CV, the Citroen 2CV, the marvellously named
Gogomobile, and
a number of quaint English motorcycle/cars such as the Morgan
three-wheeler.


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