Isetta talk

[BUIZILLA]

should get a rise out of Charley...

http://www.motoringfile.com/2008/02/...ion/#more-6438

http://www.microcarmuseum.com/info.html

[JK98SS]

Those cars are neat. My friends dad had one, I think a 57, that just sat back in the corner of his shop.

[Charley Lillard]

Ha ! I tried to get to that Museum during Power Tour a couple years ago. but didn't make it. He made a fortune off Double Bubble bubble gum, sold it and plays with cars.

[Xplantdad]

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!

[prototype]

Just when you thought Charley had it all:

http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/whattadrag.html

[BUIZILLA]

if you got a woodie in that thing you'd blow the windshield out of it...

[Dog427435]

[b] Holy Crap - there everywhere!!
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[Z-11 396]

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<<<,Just when /// you ///thought Charley had it all>>>:...NO, your Wrong, it's when ++ Lilliard +++ thought... >.HE <.. .. had it alllll.... ...Kasey

http://www.microcarmuseum.com/tour/whattadrag.html

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[Mr70]

Should retitle this topic Kaseys' Revenge.

[x Baldwin Motion]

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Should retitle this topic Kaseys' Revenge.

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Just the thought of Kasey trouncing anyone in anything with his "pure pancake power" has completely made my day!!!