In '59 or '60, when I was stationed at Carswell AFB, a guy in the outfit
had an Isetta. He pulled into a parking lot in Fort Worth and the
attendant insisted on parking the car himself. Guess he just wanted to
drive it. LOL When he returned to the parking lot an hour and a half
later, he found the car nosed up to a brick wall and the attendant
sitting in it. Seems he couldn't get the door open and also could not
figure out how to get it into reverse. As I remember, that was a two
stroke engine and reverse was the engine running in the opposite direction.
I also worked with a guy that had a Messerschmidt three wheeler with the
bubble top. Now that one was kick. Also a two stroke engine. Those
things would go just as fast in reverse as they would forward. Used the
same gears. VBG
Paul in Portland OR
On 5/14/2014 9:05 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
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.
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