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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: blob on November 26, 2009, 10:03:00 pm

Title: Is it a Microcar?
Post by: blob on November 26, 2009, 10:03:00 pm

Now this is what I want, at 600cc is it a microcar?

http://cgi.ebay.it/_Auto__BARCHETTA-SIATA-MILLE-MIGLIA-1948-DOCUMENTI-ORIGINALI_W0QQitemZ110459570495QQadiZ6576QQadnZAutoQQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobile_IT?

Title: Re: Is it a Microcar?
Post by: Chris Thomas on November 27, 2009, 08:31:13 am

Dear Mike

What a rare little beast that is, and looking at the €75000 price tag a little out or our price range.

Still console yourself that you would never be able to drive it as you are too tall to get behind the wheel.

I would say it is a Microcar, and it is certainly unusul. It perhaps should be called a sports microcar, like the Suzuki Capuchino or the Daihatsu Copen.

Chris Thomas

Title: Re: Is it a Microcar?
Post by: marcus on November 27, 2009, 08:36:03 am

Lovely

Title: Re: Is it a Microcar?
Post by: blob on November 27, 2009, 04:20:59 pm

It must be rare as I've only spotted these pictures of a 1938 version, it's certainly small though I agree Chris more minicar than micro.

http://www.clover4.co.jp/1000migle/MilleMiglia06/0361011311.jpg
http://www.hiromaru.net/special/lafesta06/img1/no035.jpg

Title: Re: Is it a Microcar?
Post by: marcus on November 27, 2009, 04:54:55 pm

Nice pics blob! I like the silver car behind it as well.

Title: Re: Is it a Microcar?
Post by: bruetsch-freak on November 27, 2009, 04:57:25 pm

As far as I know is there a second Siata Barchetta in the famous Schlumpf collection. I´m not shure if this is a microcar beacause there are very much (Italian) racing cars with small dimensions and they usually don´t belong to the microcarfield. Its always hard to define the microcar but I think that it should be a normal (not a racing) car.

I´ll search the article about the Siata of the Schlumpf brothers and post pictures.