Taken from the internet...so not sure how true it is...
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The car’s origins were with the Italian firm of Iso SpA. In the early 1950s, the company was building refrigerators, motor scooters and small three-wheeled trucks. Iso's owner, Renzo Rivolta, decided he would like to build a small car for mass consumption. By 1952 the engineers Ermenegildo Preti and Pierluigi Raggi had designed a small car that used the scooter engine and named it Isetta—an Italian diminutive meaning little ISO. It is said that the stylists had arrived at the design of the Isetta by taking two scooters, placing them close together, adding a refrigerator and shaping the result like a teardrop in the wind.
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It boasted then cutting edge features like a mid-engine motor placement, a center mounted brake light, an integrated starter motor/generator and an egg shaped aerodynamic body with a narrow rear wheel track. These safety and performance features are found on some cars of today, almost 50 years later. The Isetta was designed with a minimum of electrical and mechanical connections between the car body and the chassis and drive train.
As detailed in the factory shop manual, if you planned to work on anything moderate to major in the drive train, the standard practice was to remove the body, which only took about 30 minutes to accomplish.
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Just think...a frame off every time you work on the engine!
