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Title: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Bob Purton on April 22, 2013, 10:00:27 AM
When I got back into microcars in the mid ninties all I saw in club mags was this famous road sign with visitors to the Story museum Germany posing with there cars beside it. Here is one of mine! Does anyone have others to add?

How dare that man take that  financial investment on the road! Shocking! :D
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: richard on April 22, 2013, 01:14:53 PM
I don't remember ever seing one before bob , I only ever read cruiser news from the heinkel trojan oec. Great idea for a topic wish I had taken one when you , goggo and I went there in 2002 , I think it was , bring em on !
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Big Al on April 22, 2013, 05:51:46 PM
When I got back into microcars in the mid ninties all I saw in club mags was this famous road sign with visitors to the Story museum Germany posing with there cars beside it. Here is one of mine! Does anyone have others to add?

Give me a mo to fatten you up, change your head worzelwise on imaging prog and I can say I went to Story in my Inter.

If you were a Goggo nut you have one in front of the neighbouring town of Adfeld, where Pralle had loads of spares we used to fill up with to return home with. You will have to settle for InterMarche.
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Jean on April 22, 2013, 07:45:32 PM
In 1981 we drove our Frisky to Story in convoy with twelve other microcars from GB.  I think it was the only Frisky on the road at that time.  Having survived the cobbles of Hamburg we all drove down the autobahn to Story.  Once at Story Edwin nearly cleared the site when he welded up its petrol tank, which had sprung a leak on the journey, in Otto's workshop!  We then went out on the road run into the Harts Mountains and below is a picture of the Frisky under the road sign at the highest point on the run.  Perhaps you can tweak this photo too Isetta Owner.  Jean
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Post by: Big Al on April 22, 2013, 08:15:09 PM
Now those WERE road runs. Fantastic.
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: richard on April 22, 2013, 08:23:57 PM
Lovely to hear these memories all , thanks jean oh and by the way jean there's a lot of difference between an autobarn and an autobahn ;)
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Barry on April 22, 2013, 08:43:17 PM
In 1981 we drove our Frisky to Story in convoy with twelve other microcars from GB.  I think it was the only Frisky on the road at that time.  Having survived the cobbles of Hamburg we all drove down the autobarn to Story.  Once at Story Edwin nearly cleared the site when he welded up its petrol tank, which had sprung a leak on the journey, in Otto's workshop!  We then went out on the road run into the Harts Mountains and below is a picture of the Frisky under the road sign at the highest point on the run.  Perhaps you can tweak this photo too Isetta Owner.  Jean

Sorry but not the best result with the photo Jean.  The fading on the right is hard to improve.  Cropped version gets rid of that portion.
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Peelpower on April 22, 2013, 09:34:47 PM
Now , this ia my Kr and my son. I guess loads of people did the same photo.

Good old Story times  :'(


(http://www.kabinenroller.de/Pictures/Gallery/STOERY2003_Bild_08.JPG)
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: richard on April 22, 2013, 10:01:47 PM
There's a book in there for someone - MICROCAR STOERY'S
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: richard on April 23, 2013, 08:50:22 AM
Can't blow it up really on my blackberry but that looks like a lloyd coming up behind the Frisky . That's what struck me about the great run in 2002 - the amount of Goggos,Lloyds and Victorias , great countryside and empty roads too   :)
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Bob Purton on April 23, 2013, 10:32:06 AM
Yes, and the general motorists were respectful of Microcars on the road.
The only problem I remember was a certain driver causing problems  knibbling biscuits whilst driving! ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: richard on April 23, 2013, 01:23:06 PM
I well remember us travelling in convoy on a major road when you  and goggo pulled over to a rest area and I sailed on, then when you caught up you were flashing me to pull over ! When we did I ran back to ask why we had stopped ! You and goggo insisted that I had kept indicating to pull over ! Nonsense said I , but I was having difficulty opening my custard creams and must have kept knocking the autobianchis indicator stem . How we laughed  ;D.     KNIBBLING  biscuits in Germany - yes as soon as we got back to uk we had to drive on the left again and relearn how to just NiBBLE them - not to be understated there should be roadsigns to remind you  ;D
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Big Al on April 23, 2013, 01:36:38 PM
What I liked about Story was when it was enquired about if what we were doing was totally above board it would be pointed out that the nice man helping Otto was a chief policeman. On the road most Germans not are not only polite to the few old cars they might see about but are proud of their motoring heritage whether it be a Merc or a Brutsch. They regard engineers in the same status as Doctors, Academics and Lawyers. So the equivalent of MSc after your name does not mean your a grubby little man from Coventry. Here they have it bung right. Engineers make countries economies work. We should be as proud of their achievements as we are of Classic books, inventors etc. Driving in Germany in a German Microcar have been amungst some of the best moments I have had in a classic car.
Secondly on organized run is permissible over there.  As Chris inter-mated up to 12 cars here, OKish. Over there you get Police outriders, a squad/traffic car and if there is the need negotiation on priority at awkward or busy junctions in line with the size of event. Story has had over 200 cars on the move - getting on for double the total normal modern turnout at our National in Story's best years. Little drama, partly because Germans do what they are told and get ready for the run and leave on time rather then putting the eggs on with 5 minutes to go and start blubbing. I cannot tell you what it is like, you have to experience Microcar infestation to nigh on exclusion of other traffic to believe how much of a buzz it is. I guess it might not happen again as a mixed bag of little cars but still we here of big numbers of cars getting together in Germany where they are DRIVEN.
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Bob Purton on April 23, 2013, 02:59:01 PM
I well remember us travelling in convoy on a major road when you  and goggo pulled over to a rest area and I sailed on, then when you caught up you were flashing me to pull over ! When we did I ran back to ask why we had stopped ! You and goggo insisted that I had kept indicating to pull over ! Nonsense said I , but I was having difficulty opening my custard creams and must have kept knocking the autobianchis indicator stem . How we laughed  ;D.     KNIBBLING  biscuits in Germany - yes as soon as we got back to uk we had to drive on the left again and relearn how to just NiBBLE them - not to be understated there should be roadsigns to remind you  ;D

Yes, we spell Knibble with a K  here in Essex because as you know we are rather Posh! We spell dunking with two Ds you know! ;D

The mad thing about that episode was that Richard put us to all that trouble for the sake of a custard cream! Yuck!!  If it had been a Tunnocks tea cake, Jammy Dodger or even a Bourbon I would have forgiven him. :D
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: richard on April 23, 2013, 03:54:30 PM
Oh no - don't let's go down that autobahn again it's an ausfahrt
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Rob Dobie on April 23, 2013, 06:35:56 PM
an ausfahrt

Isn't that what you get when driving a pony and trap?  :P
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Post by: Jean on April 23, 2013, 07:36:21 PM

Thank you Richard no more 'barns' and thank you Isetta Owner for tweeking my picture.

Yes,as Al says  great memories of days gone by.  Polite German lorry drivers in huge vehicles  holding back to allow a stream of microcars across the cobbles of the Hamburg dock area to the Autobahn so that we didn't get separated from our unknown  guide on a Heinkel Scooter.  Then when we returned to Harwich being hassled by impatient English drivers on the roundabout as we came off the ferry!

Great BBQ's provided by Otto for his foreign guests.  Edwin (who spoke no German) sharing jokes the Herr Kleinschnittger (who spoke no English) over beer and beef steaks in the warm May evening. Friendships forged to this day even if its only exchanging Christmas greetings, whilst others have sadly passed away. You young'ns missed a lot. Even that last Story in 2002, Andrew and I were there having flown over without a car, the atmosphere was so very different from the 70/80's, it all seemed much more commercial from our memories of the early days. Jean
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: richard on April 23, 2013, 07:52:37 PM
There's just no getting away from it - nostalgia aint what it used to be  ;)
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Bob Purton on April 23, 2013, 08:20:13 PM
You would never have got away with a joke like that in the 'good ol days'!!
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: richard on April 24, 2013, 08:50:51 AM
Mischievious mockery emanating from the microcopc  micronaut - that's from the good old days
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Big Al on April 24, 2013, 10:08:49 AM
My fav on a run is a Bourbon MkD tourer.

Tunnocks, not posh with two Ns?

I fear the commercial side was one thing that helped persuade Otto to knock things on the head. I was guilty of succumbing that last time but the whole ethos was that it was about driving silly little cars to and then from the event if at all possible. 2002 saw a group of wealthy foreign buyers turn up and have a competition to see who could buy up the most cars. It was the day I think I knew that the Microcar thing had changed towards another entity. Perhaps it was like the teenage years, a loss of innocence. I do not say that is a bad thing. Its different and it holds little interest to me. Now where is my Goggo saloon in its school girl uniform?
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Bob Purton on April 25, 2013, 08:39:45 AM
I guess the ideal one for nibbling whilst driving would be a Biscuiter!
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: richard on April 25, 2013, 08:52:19 AM
And I guess any form of cracker would give a link to the (chassis less) Bruetsch's ;)
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Bob Purton on April 25, 2013, 11:38:45 AM
I'm told Bond Bug drivers prefer a Jaffa cake.
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Post by: Big Al on April 25, 2013, 07:08:09 PM
The Tuc cheese foam sandwich of confidant French Fridge rigid structures.

Back to schmitting and it was not unknown to attempt to throw ginger biscuits, or suitable structurally strong but not hard flat sweetmeats through a middle schmitts window to the third waiting pilot on the other side while taking up two lanes of the motorway. Either that or pass a banana to chum only to have the skin returned via when you weren't looking. This is real schmitting where you trust the skills of your oppos. Sadly a rare occasion these days. Indeed just like on a run to Story.
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Post by: piatti on April 26, 2013, 06:16:23 PM
A while ago, when I used to have an Isetta. Guess it was taken in 2002, at the last Stoery meet.
Title: Re: Story road sign photo's.
Post by: Bob Purton on April 27, 2013, 09:03:34 AM
Thats a great pic!  It demonstrates the danger of leaving your car parked near Andy Carter, five minutes later a fiberglass one appears! ;D ;D ;D