/——/ The original concept was to have a motorcycle Italians could use in all weather. This was right after WWII when Europeans had no money for cars and gas was scarce. They were never intended for US roads. See what you can learn watching the History Channel?
1953 BME Isetta
Looking back? The damned things are everywhere today!
1009 Smart for Two
These things are everywhere.
There’s no way I’d ever get in one. Get in an accident and you’re a goner.
More pics and the story @ A look back at the tiny cars that once ruled the road
/——/ My friend in HS had one and we took it out to Interstate 85. We had to get up a good head of steam downhill to make it up the next hill at 10 mph. There were tractor trailers blasting their horns at us and having to pass us. We got off at the second exit and took the service road back. Never againWhen I was a kid one of our neighbors had an Isetta, we got to ride in it, thought it was the coolest thing on three wheels.
It was licensed to be built all over Europe and South America, most people remember it as the BMW Bubble Car./——/ The original concept was to have a motorcycle Italians could use in all weather. This was right after WWII when Europeans had no money for cars and gas was scarce. They were never intended for US roads. See what you can learn watching the History Channel?
1953 BME Isetta
Looking back? The damned things are everywhere today!
1009 Smart for Two
These things are everywhere.
There’s no way I’d ever get in one. Get in an accident and you’re a goner.
More pics and the story @ A look back at the tiny cars that once ruled the road
Forty-eight MPH was it's top speed and it took 30 seconds to get to thirty MPH......... Definitely not a highway vehicle....../——/ My friend in HS had one and we took it out to Interstate 85. We had to get up a good head of steam downhill to make it up the next hill at 10 mph. There were tractor trailers blasting their horns at us and having to pass us. We got off at the second exit and took the service road back. Never againWhen I was a kid one of our neighbors had an Isetta, we got to ride in it, thought it was the coolest thing on three wheels.
/——/ Now you tell us. Where were you in 1970 with your cogent advice?Forty-eight MPH was it's top speed and it took 30 seconds to get to thirty MPH......... Definitely not a highway vehicle....../——/ My friend in HS had one and we took it out to Interstate 85. We had to get up a good head of steam downhill to make it up the next hill at 10 mph. There were tractor trailers blasting their horns at us and having to pass us. We got off at the second exit and took the service road back. Never againWhen I was a kid one of our neighbors had an Isetta, we got to ride in it, thought it was the coolest thing on three wheels.
Colorado Springs heading to Taiwan........./——/ Now you tell us. Where were you in 1970 with your cogent advice?Forty-eight MPH was it's top speed and it took 30 seconds to get to thirty MPH......... Definitely not a highway vehicle....../——/ My friend in HS had one and we took it out to Interstate 85. We had to get up a good head of steam downhill to make it up the next hill at 10 mph. There were tractor trailers blasting their horns at us and having to pass us. We got off at the second exit and took the service road back. Never againWhen I was a kid one of our neighbors had an Isetta, we got to ride in it, thought it was the coolest thing on three wheels.
1953 BME Isetta
Looking back? The damned things are everywhere today!
1009 Smart for Two
These things are everywhere.
There’s no way I’d ever get in one. Get in an accident and you’re a goner.
More pics and the story @ A look back at the tiny cars that once ruled the road
When I was a kid one of our neighbors had an Isetta, we got to ride in it, thought it was the coolest thing on three wheels.
To a nine year old it was cool........When I was a kid one of our neighbors had an Isetta, we got to ride in it, thought it was the coolest thing on three wheels.
Pretty much the antonym of 'cool'.
Anti-cool.
Cool as irony.
When I was a kid one of our neighbors had an Isetta, we got to ride in it, thought it was the coolest thing on three wheels.
