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A friend of mine had one and had some fun with it on the streets of Paris! I even rode in it :unsure:

This friend drove it on the road once. The car did not make it through a curve and ended its journey in a ditch!

That was the end of the Isetta!

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An uncle of mine once parked one of these (actually a Messerschmidt) in front of a wall and as it was front-opening only and didn't do reverse, he couldn't get out.

:D

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These were rather common on the streets here when I was a boy.

There were many different models of small cars, one of them being the Goggomobil (what a priceless name!).

One of our school teachers, a rather weighty lady, drove one of these, and we always figured if she might use a shoehorn to get inside ...

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A friend of mine, who used to play trumpet in symphony orchestras, had one of those in the early sixties, when he lived in London. When classical music gigs were thin on the ground, he did theatrical gigs and managed at this period to work three gigs a night in different theatres, using the Isetta to slide in between the traffic to get from one gig to the other.

The middle gig of each evening required him to be on stage and blow a fanfare, dressed in Roman soldier's uniform. He'd whip out of that gig and into his Isetta - still dressed as a Roman! - and on to the next. Once he couldn't get there in time to change out of the uniform into mufti, so appeared in the orchestra pit still dressed as a Roman. That was the end of his three gigs a night work!

MG

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An uncle of mine once parked one of these (actually a Messerschmidt) in front of a wall and as it was front-opening only and didn't do reverse, he couldn't get out.

:D

:lol:

BTW, why is there an RIP in the thread title?

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