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[Rheged]

Had a mate who had one of those "sans" the m.g. 

As did I. We pushed it up against a wall with him in it. Front opening door, no reverse....he wasn't happy!! 

[PR19_Kit]

Had a mate who had one of those "sans" the m.g. 

As did I. We pushed it up against a wall with him in it. Front opening door, no reverse....he wasn't happy!!

Couldn't he have climbed out of the sunroof? I can't recall seeing an Isetta that didn't have a sunroof.

[Rick Lowe]

Couldn't he have climbed out of the sunroof? I can't recall seeing an Isetta that didn't have a sunroof.

Maybe that was *why* they all had them - to stop folk starving to death, who'd made a similar sort of error...

[zenrat]

Thats the sort of photo people take because they have both items in their collection of stuff and it occurs to them to do so while tidying up the garage/shed/museum.
Which begs the question what sort of person collects both bubble cars and machine guns?
I'd like to see the rest of the collection.

[scooter]

Which begs the question what sort of person collects both bubble cars and machine guns?

The same sort who'd put treads on a SmartCar?

[perttime]

Thats the sort of photo people take because they have both items in their collection of stuff and it occurs to them to do so while tidying up the garage/shed/museum.
Which begs the question what sort of person collects both bubble cars and machine guns?
I'd like to see the rest of the collection.

The kind who are over 50?
There was this Japanese guy who built a huge walking sorta scorpionish vehicle. He said that he was over 50, now, and could do what he wanted.

[kerick]

I'm over 60 and still nobody lets me do what I want. I missed the boat somewhere.
There is guy that has what appears to be a Chieftain tank. I should see what he wants for it.

[Rheged]

Isetta didn't have it all their own way. Some bubble cars were made by Heinkel, and even licenced for production in Ireland. Thus says Wiki :-

The Heinkel Kabine was a microcar designed by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke and built by them from 1956 to 1958. Production was transferred under licence to Dundalk Engineering Company in Ireland in 1958. However, the licence was withdrawn shortly afterwards due to poor quality control. Production restarted in 1960, again under licence, under the Trojan 200 name by Trojan Cars Ltd. in the UK, and continued until 1966

I must assume that the vehicles with solid roofs and no reverse were the Dundalk built variant. Allegedly capable of nearly 60 mph, but I'm not sure that I'd like to travel at anything like that speed in one.

[Joe C-P]

A new kind of technical!

Yeah, technically it's going to be going in reverse the moment you pull the trigger, no matter what gear it's actually in!

Hey, that's the solution!  Those famously had no reverse gear, and only the front door.

[PR19_Kit]

A new kind of technical!

Yeah, technically it's going to be going in reverse the moment you pull the trigger, no matter what gear it's actually in!

Hey, that's the solution!  Those famously had no reverse gear, and only the front door.

Some did have reverse, but only at extra cost.

They didn't sell too many like that in UK as the lack of reverse meant you could drive one with a motorbike licence.

[Rheged]

Politics
Poly means many,
Tics are a blood sucking arachnid.

EXPERT
Ex meaning past it
Spurt meaning a drip under pressure.

[zenrat]

Politics
Poly means many,
Tics are a blood sucking arachnid.

EXPERT
Ex meaning past it
Spurt meaning a drip under pressure.

Necrophilia
Necro meaning dead.
Philia from the verb to fill...

[Old Wombat]

Oh good, Fred's doing the "one step beyond" appropriate thing again. Excellent!

[NARSES2]

Had a mate who had one of those "sans" the m.g. 

As did I. We pushed it up against a wall with him in it. Front opening door, no reverse....he wasn't happy!!

There were always stories about of dead bodies being found in ones which had been driven up against a garage wall  I think Frankie Howard did a t.v. sketch based on that premise ?

[NARSES2]

Isetta didn't have it all their own way. Some bubble cars were made by Heinkel, and even licenced for production in Ireland. Thus says Wiki :-

Yup Heinkel did the side by side bubble car and I think it was Messerschmitt who did the fore and aft version ?