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 <[email protected]> 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 :-( > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred [email protected] >
