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From: cuhulin on 8 Mar 2010 21:01 When I found out I was going to Vietnam, I sold my Isetta to an Army Officer at Scott AFB.Before that though, there was a woman who worked for the USO at Scott AFB.She had asked me a couple of times if I would sell my car to her.By the time I had went to look her up, she had transfered to some place else.I probally could have sold my car to her for more money.I still have the big thick owners/owners operators/maintnance manual book that was in the car when I bought it.The original owner of the car was a woman in Germany. cuhulin
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 8 Mar 2010 22:18 On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:24:05 -1000, dsi1 wrote: > On 3/8/2010 12:53 PM, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B wrote: >> On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:34:20 -0600, cuhulin wrote: >> >> >>> 1957 BMW Isetta car I bought in 1963 >> >> YOU had a Steve Urkel car?!?! >> >> >> >> > BMW car = Beemer > > BMW motorcycle = Bimmer > > BMW Issetta = Blooper I have been doing computer work for a while now. One of my customers was a place that remanufactures cutting tools for milling machines. They usually had me go to the 'boiler room' where they had their telemarketers cold-calling for new customers and recalling (oops, bad word...) old customers for new business. One day they called me, and I went to the usual place and the guy said, No we're going to connect a PC to one of the mills. I hooked it up and while they were testing I went out back for a cig, and passed an Isetta in pieces. Then I noticed the completely restored one in a corner. There was an older guy working on them, and it turned out he owned the company, and had a collection of them, 4 of the usual model and 2 'limousines', because they had an extended back seat and...and...a DOOR (ONE door) on the passenger's side of the car. My daughter was 12 then and we watched the show every Friday, and I was telling my wife and she asked for a ride. I had to go back the next day, and I brought her up Saturday. I was going to ask to drive one but didn't. They sure looked like fun!
From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 8 Mar 2010 22:19 On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:11:20 -0700, M.M. wrote: > dsi1 wrote: >> >> BMW car = Beemer >> >> BMW motorcycle = Bimmer >> >> BMW Issetta = Blooper > > No, no, no... > > car = Bimmer > > motorcycle = Beemer (Beamer?) I just call them Big Mangled Wrecks. ;)
From: cuhulin on 8 Mar 2010 23:01
Sitting inside of the Isetta I used to own, with the engine running and reving it up and driving, the sound/noise was LOUD! The little 9 horsepower air cooled engine (I think it was 9 horsepower) behind the seat and practicaly no insulation to speak of. Driving across the old Eads Bridge at Saint Louis in rainy weather was SPOOKY! That little car would try to skate around on the wet iron open/see through grating on that old bridge.I was glad I got rid of that death trap. cuhulin |