And remember the Isetta had no reverse gear so if you parked towards a wall
you couldn't get the door open and you couldn't back away...
http://www.topgear.com/uk/videos/more-outtakes-from-series-15-bubble-wrap
On 14 May 2014 17:05, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm curious as to the make and model of car in the two DNT LAF
> >> photos. It's not an early Fiat 500.
> >>
> >
> >BMW Isetta. One of several microcars to emerge from postwar Germany to
> >exploit the sudden increase in fuel prices in Europe due to the Suez
> crisis
> >of the late 50s.
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isetta
> >
> >As a child in the mid 60s, I was fascinated by these "bubble cars" as we
> >called them.
> >
>
> I'm still interested in them, as well as the 3-wheel and 2-wheel
> (yes, two wheels such as the Ford Gyron) cars. My cousin in Britain had
> one of those bubble cars (a BMW Isetta) where the entire front was the door
> with the steering wheel mounted on it. It was destroyed when a truck
> backed up on top of it. I recently saw one of those with the two handles
> on the front (BMW Isetta 600?) in a Peter Sellers movie, though I cannot
> remember which one. Perhaps it was "I'm All Right Jack" with Terry Thomas.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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