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General Category => Unusual Microcar Discussion => Topic started by: richard on February 23, 2013, 05:44:35 PM

Title: mystery car ?
Post by: richard on February 23, 2013, 05:44:35 PM

is it ? or do we know it

Title: Re: mystery car ?
Post by: wilksie on February 23, 2013, 06:44:31 PM

The bonnet seems to be a shortened version of a Renault Dauphine. So something French perhaps?

Title: Re: mystery car ?
Post by: Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker) on February 23, 2013, 08:14:22 PM

The "Baldet Bluebird" sounds like the fellow

http://www.isetta-owners-club-gb.com/art_9.htm (http://www.isetta-owners-club-gb.com/art_9.htm)

Title: Re: mystery car ?
Post by: richard on February 23, 2013, 08:17:54 PM

the some mothers do 'av em beret hints at the gallic

Title: Re: mystery car ?
Post by: Jonathan Poll on February 23, 2013, 11:10:22 PM

I like it, nicer than a normal isetta  ;D

Title: Re: mystery car ?
Post by: Big Al on February 24, 2013, 08:00:53 AM

And it mentions the wonderful Brian Westerby. He was the guy who first helped me with my original Isettas. A gent who later tended to appear at events mounted on various motorcycles like Bantom.

Title: Re: mystery car ?
Post by: Bob Purton on February 24, 2013, 02:22:19 PM

I do like that, it looks fun. So Brian rode a Bantom?, he obviously liked making hybrids, I guess that's a cross between a Bantam and an Itom?

Title: Re: mystery car ?
Post by: richard on February 24, 2013, 06:01:53 PM

And there was I thinking it was a cross between an ant and a bottom