Tag: Microcar
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Microcar 3-Fer!
We’re big fans of multi-car deals and, needless to say, we like them even more when oddities are involved. In this case, we have a 3-fer where all three qualify as microcars, but we’re really here for the ACOMA Super Comtesse. The ACOMA is not just obscure, it’s Lane Motor Museum obscure! What’s not to…
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Outgrew your Playmobil toys? How about a Fuldmobil from Elektromaschinenbau Fulda?
Behold the car that might or might not have created the bubble car concept! This is, as you might guess, a 1950s German contraption, launched in the hard times after WWII.
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A True Minivan: The Cushman Vanster
Okay, so it’s really a microvan. Anywho, if you don’t know Cushman, you probably haven’t paid much attention to the meter maid parking enforcement vehicles used in urban centers. These are sometimes road legal and are generally represent minimalist transporation, sometimes inside industrial facilities. Today’s feature vehicle is a Cushman of the four-wheel variety (some…
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Potential Kabinenroller Deal: 1955 Messerschmitt KR200
The Bruce Weiner microcar museum auction, in 2013, set a high bar for microcar prices, as some of the best example of the rarest and most desirable among the breed went up for sale. It seems that Isettas and Messerchmitts have kept fairly high prices ever since, so this Messy will be a deal if the…
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Not the Lane’s Example: Acoma Super Comtesse Microcar
This is the sort of thing one finds at Nashville’s amazing Lane Motor Museum, but this isn’t their example. The seller did, however, copy the ad text from their site!
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Zoe Zipper Three Wheeler
From the microcar files, we have this Zoe Zipper, which was a rebadged Mitsuoka Motors BUBU 501. This little three-wheeler was supposedly capably of 45 miles per hour, but we imagine that’s terrifying. Regardless, we love it!
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Bond Minicar 250 G
No, the infamous Reliant Robin was not the only three-wheeled, British microcar. About 25 years before the Robin, there was the Bond Minicar. Today’s feature car is the best of that breed – at least in terms of being a complete car – the Mark G. It also represents the end of a nearly twenty-year…
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Weiner Microcar Musuem Liquidation, Round 2?
Anyone who knows microcars knows that Bruce Wiener close his Madison, Georgia, USA museum in 2014 and sold most of the vehicles. RM auctions handled the sale and many microcar price records were set on that day. Further, every other microcar for sale roughly doubled in asking price around that time. It seems not all…
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1971 Honda Vamos
Here’s one we’d never heard of! The Vamos was based on Honda’s mini-truck, the TN360, and was a mini-Jeep competitor (think Suzuki). The interwebs consistently indicate that about 2,500 of these were built; so this is rare outside the Lane Motor Museum (surely they have one). The seller of our subject unit provides almost no…
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1962 Citroen 2CV Sahara
Here’s one of our favorites, which is basically a Citroen 2CV with dual engine to yield four wheel drive. This was specifically built four exploring the French colonies in Africa, but we assume it was expensive or not too competitive with the Land Rover, given production under 700 units total. These are now collector cars…