« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2011, 08:03:05 AM »
No, he is Rusty Chrome! In memory of Leslie Nielson there.
There was one floating about in Britain somewhere. It was imported by an AA guy from Bracknell way if I remember correctly. He visited me several times looking at my stock but wanting something 'cheaper but very unusual'. Firstly he bought the worlds only LHD three wheeled bubbletop Isetta (from Alan Tozzer of Henley, or certainly one of his creations I think)..... This he drove to several Wyvern Pubnights (like the Pheonix Pubnights at Hartney Wintney) off the A34 where he anounced a plan to buy cars from Greece. I advised against this, having looked into it as what could be bought very cheap would cost a fortune to export in fees and logistics. Then he bought an Attica and Attila from a Greek Island. He fetched these back by trailer and it cost a small fortune - £3k? including backhanders to officials who invented reasons he could not do things. These appeared unrestored at a few meetings like Dave Tadman's Kent job where it was against the newly restored Bob Purton Inter which came from me. Sadly chum died young and the cars moved on. I failed to get the cars.
They later appeared at the Bubblecar Museum and seem to be owned by Andy Carter and Mike Cooper but I do not recall who had which. I still fancied doing the Heinkel fourwheeler approach as I am fairly convinced it would be a better car than the Sachs engined machines at the time of the auction there. It was still more than I would pay and since I have lost track of them as I am no longer interested in either project. NO idea what happened to the Isetta and if it is still a three wheeler.
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