Microcars

The Times has ~an article~ about the microcar museum in GA. today. Sample photos from it below:

Micro cars are cool, although that Fuldamobil sure does look like an old Samsonite suitcase!

I've never been, but I have taken his Virtual Tour many times.

http://microcarmuseum.com/virtualtour.html

-Rob

They also have a very good collection of micro-cars at the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville. Best $5 I ever spent.

http://lanemotormuseum.org/

I wonder if any of them would be roadlegal in the states?

Thats the Double Bubble guy! Bruce something or other. He was a regular at Lamborghini of Atlanta, buying and trading exotics like they were Hot Wheels... I remember he went in one day, looking for a C6 Z06 for his 13 year old son to drive around their property where the Museum is. The owner of LoA convinced him to get a Lotus Exige S instead...

Yeah his name is Bruce Weiner. I went a few months ago to the museum. Not really my thing, but my wife loved it. I did find a few intersting cars, my favorite being the Messerschmitt.

I like the little mini-estate in army green in the background from the Messer

mad_machine wrote: I wonder if any of them would be roadlegal in the states?

I can't think of a microcar that isn't road legal, assuming it's more than 25 years old. The Peel P50 might be the smallest, aside from those suitcase cars.

http://lanemotormuseum.org/peel-p50-1965

I went to the lane motor musem when I was in TN last month, very cool!

They try and keep all the cars there in running, driveable condition and take them out at least once a year for a drive.

Yeah, the Lane is cool. Last time I was there I got to go for a ride in the Davis.

Actually that reminds me they had a video playing in the microcar section of them taking the Peel P50 out for a drive.

There was a part of a video where they showed it waiting at a stoplight, with an 18 wheeler behind it. Hilarious.

They had a few cool cars outside in the "garage" and not in the museum yet when I was there. A green Lotus Europa was parked in the back with some polished slot mags, and there was also a Honda Beat.

Yeah, they kind of rotate things as they have more cars than the floor can hold. A bunch are packed into the basement, too. I need to get back there.

I went tot the micro/mini car world meet about a month ago. Good times.

Best Peel P50 video is the Top Gear episode with Clarkson driving all through the BBC building... especially behind the newscasters... and having to get pushed out of the elevator ("She's got quite a nice bottom. Did I say that out loud?") and, heck, just him climbing (falling?) into it!

What? No Cyclops?