Likewise. I had 3 Isettas bought from my woodwork master at school, age 16. By the time I had a licence, fell foul of the trike/prov learner rule, I had covered enough mileage in the best one illegally to realise I needed a new pair of boots, and a better car. So those Isetta never did see the road with me but they were sold and restored by others and I assume are still around somewhere. I bought a Mini for £300, a lot of money in 1978, and had to rebuild it at that. The start of a succession of A series cars. I also had a Trojan, which hit the road to be swapped for a Goggo and a Messerschmitt arrived from a quarter of a mile down the road when the Germans delivered the Goggo and took the Trojan.
The first Isetta I worked on, owned by my housemaster, turned up at Merthr Tydfil still in yellow and with the school sticker in the window. I would like to have bought it but was without funds that year. That takes me back to 1975 and so my association with microcars will hit 40 years next year. I remember being in the group that represented the 'young owners' and hope for these cars. Fortunately there are younger owners than me about, but maybe my generation was the last sort of unified influx on the back of the formation of clubs and Burford. It has to be said that many a car looks like being successfully inherited, while not the best solution to an issue, it is to be welcomed and maybe these owners will form an educated rump to input their skills in clubs and such.
