coffee and donuts video tour of Dennis Varni's museum/shop and garages (Thank you Larry!)

Thank you Don for sharing this Isetta, at a rest stop on I-5 in Southern Oregon in Spring 2021. A grandfather in Michigan left it to a grand daughter in Oregon, and she was taking it home to restore it. Tags are 1964

that Isetta has something painted on the area in front of the driver, probably humorous, but I can't make it out. Strange to see one getting hauled on a trailer

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8427566787345138&set=gm.1335583947619438&idorvanity=319578812553295

7 Bantams, and a lot of museum microcars (Isetta, Crosley, Goggomobile, Fiat, Vespa etc) are coming to auction

 

https://www.mecum.com/auctions/larrys-legacy-2025/lots/?auction[0]=Larry%E2%80%99s+Legacy+2025|1758240000|1758412800&configure[filters]=&configure[ruleContexts][0]=pin_items&page=2

the top 10 of the Hot Wheels international search for the next coolest car has finally got it's crazy fun and cool cars

you might recall this from 2021 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/07/making-delorean-way-he-wanted-it-with.html 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-1983-austin-mini-built-to-resemble.html

https://www.hagerty.com/media/lists/one-of-these-10-badass-builds-will-get-a-hot-wheels-mini-me/

https://creations.mattel.com/pages/hw-legends-tour

Big Dill and The Pickle Jar, a matched set of Isettas. Big Dill is a Harley-Davidson-powered dragster, and it's transporter/flatbed hauler is of course, The Pickle Jar.

Michael Brown of Indiana designed, built and owns both bubble cars. 

The dragster: nicknamed Big Dill features an extensive list of modifications outside, inside and in the engine compartment. Brown started the project by building a custom frame. He then modified the body to clear a pair of widened, Volkswagen Beetle-sourced rear wheels wrapped by massive tires and replaced the factory-fitted 298-cubic-centimeter single-cylinder engine with a 1.2-liter V-twin taken off of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. 

Brown then turned his attention to the interior, which is entirely custom-built as well. Accessed via a side-hinged front door, it's equipped with a single seat, a quick-release steering wheel, a roll hoop and diamond-stitched upholstery. All told, the project took about 438 hours to finish.

While the Isetta was never a common sight on American roads, Brown managed to find a second example to turn into a car hauler he calls The Pickle Jar. The transformation required designing and building a one-off subframe to mount a tilting platform on, and Brown chose a 230-cubic-inch Chevrolet-sourced straight-six to significantly increase the pocket-sized BMW's payload capacity. He didn't leave the body alone, either. Up front, the Isetta received a pair of Volkswagen Beetle fenders and lights. Out back, it wears fenders from a Ford Model A.

https://www.autoblog.com/2023/09/25/harley-davidson-powered-1957-bmw-isetta-is-a-2023-hot-wheels-legends-tour-finalist/

https://www.autoblog.com/2023/11/06/here-are-the-10-finalists-in-the-2023-hot-wheels-legends-tour/

there will be a cool bunch of small cars auctioned off on Sept 30th in Ohio... Bantams, Isettas, a Metro, a Messerschmitt, and much more

1959 Messerschmitt KR200-Showing 755 Miles and Owned by the Same Family for Over Fifty Years

 1957 BMW Isetta 300-Repainted, Original Interior, Hartz Cloth Roof, Showing 14,326 Miles; 1959 BMW Isetta 300-Frame Off Amateur Restoration, Repaint, New Interior, Lots of New Chrome, Hartz Cloth Roof

https://www.muncysells.com/auctions/1959-messerschmitt-bmw-isettas-vintage-microcars-classic-automobiles-1946-ford-convertible-two-bantams

I guess you wouldn't want to be in an Isetta in a car crash, but then, you probably wouldn't want to be in any rear engine car in a crash. I still like the looks of the little things though.... thanks Robert!

 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=5848211841882924&set=gm.925309091980261&idorvanity=319578812553295

strange choices for law enforcement

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225377878698653&set=gm.5407760829258737

Artcurial has some interesting cars coming to auction

https://www.artcurial.com/fr/vente-4284-automobiles-sur-les-champs

the RESTORED YouTube channel guys found a 1959 BMW Isetta that’s been abandoned in a forest for 4 decades – and brought it back to drivable status

 

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/back-from-the-dead-bmw-isetta-brought-back-to-life-after-40-year-slumber-193191.html#

WSKN had an Isetta in the 1958 armory expo, an odd choice, but, it fits in the booth!

 

https://photobygibson.com/archive/collections/archive/NYS-National-Guard

and I'm sure it's the same Isetta in this 1960 photo between the tractor and the Nash

https://photobygibson.com/archive/collections/archive/Town-of-Germantown-1960s

todays installment of what's under the car cover

I'm guessing the above is a Chevelle

 

I'm guessing this one is a 1969 Charger... I guessed wrong, Of course it's a Mopar

How about that? There simply are NOT many 67 Barracudas out there

This is for sure a Cadillac

and I guessed right on this Porsche

and there was a place with 4 or 5 cars under covers

Sure these two closest to the camera are interesting... but that 3rd one way back by the house is an Isetta

and you don't see anyone with an Isetta.