The name Vespa inevitably makes us think of the most famous scooter in the world, but as enthusiasts know well that it is not just that. Indeed, The Vespa 400 of this article is a rear-engined microcar, produced by ACMA in Fourchambault, France, from 1957 to 1961 to the designs of the Italian Piaggio company.… Read More Unplugged: 1959 ACMA Vespa 400
There is a real cult for microcars, certainly not as widespread as that for “large size” classic cars, yet well rooted among collectors: the car featured in this article is the same model that was exhibited at the Bruce Weiner Microcars Museum, now closed. The car is a Mochet CM-125 Luxe, whose history in brief… Read More No license required: 1951 Mochet CM-125 Luxe
The Heinkel Kabine was a microcar designed by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke and built by them from 1956 to 1958. Clearly this car owes a lot to the ISO Isetta. The 1950s saw a remarkable flowering of Microcars, this is quite obvious because on the one hand there was a growing need for mobility, on the other… Read More Cabin fever: 1957 Heinkel Kabine 200 Typ 154
Let’s face it, everyone likes microcars: they arouse sympathy in everyone, no matter what age, gender or social class they belong to. Some people like these cars simply because they are “nice”, others, like us and like many of you, like them because we see the engineering effort to make a “real” car but with… Read More Macro fun: 1950 Kleinschnittger F 125
As Wikipedia says, Fuldamobil is the name of a series of small cars produced by Elektromaschinenbau Fulda GmbH of Fulda, Germany, and Nordwestdeutscher Fahrzeugbau (NWF) of Wilhelmshaven between 1950 and 1969. So now we know the big picture. Although Fuldamobil was German, it seems that this car in particular was built at the factory in… Read More Blue egg: 1957 Fuldamobil S-7
Also this week there is an odd couple: this time it’s not about two coachbuilt cars, built by an almost unknown coachbuilder, but it’s about two all-terrain microcars. We are talking about a Ferves Ranger (the larger of the two) and a Lawil Warzina S3: despite their names they were both produced in Italy in… Read More Indivisible: 1967 Ferves Ranger + 1971 Lawil Varzina S3
Well, this is not a car in the sense that we all generally mean, but we know very well that true classic car enthusiasts are first and foremost romantics who like objects like this. This micro car comes indeed from the Disneyland Autopia amusement park, during the ’60s (we suppose the early 60s) and was… Read More Amusement ride: 1960 Autopia
There are few things of this had that we don’t understand: first, what does the “Mercury Monarch conversion” matter with this microcar, second: we haven’t ever seen this model. This is a Lloyd roadster from 1958, stored in a proper barn: a fascinating place if it were not for the giant spiders that usually are… Read More Proper barn find: 1958 Lloyd 600 Roadster
It is said that what isn’t there cannot break, so this with this microcar you’ll not have problems at all. It is one of the cars built during the ’50’s, the golden era of microcars as the whole Europe, just out of the WWII, had few resources and the many thought that these little cars… Read More Minor than mini: 1951 Mochet GM-125 De Luxe
Fuldamobil is the name of a micro car series produced by Elektromaschinenbau Fulda GmbH of Fulda, Germany, and Nordwestdeutscher Fahrzeugbau (NWF) of Wilhelmshaven between 1950 and 1969. Not many of these were sold in the past but their shape often attracted a lot of attention of the specialized media. The formula was the usual one: three… Read More Space age egg: 1959 Fuldamobil Fram King S7
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