BMW-Isetta

title=”Shopping cheers me up!” by amarcord108
document from Paris, 1961
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This photo gives me a flashback to my youth! About 1963 I longed to drive such a car! But even that minimum was much too expensive for me and my family! The driver’s wheel was fixed on the front-door. When you tried to get into that “car”, it was something like to enter a sardines’ tan. But it was possible nevertheless, to buy much and carry all the things away. At first: fix it on the roof top of the car. IKEA customers often are using the same trick even nowadays.  Thanks to “amarcord108”, who sent the document to my group BLOG IT!. He made this shot in Paris. He at first did not know, that this car’s name was ISETTA. From the famous BMW-engineers in Munich, Germany. Nowadays their cars are again much too expensive for me 😦

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