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General Category => RUMCar Mart => Topic started by: messyman on June 22, 2014, 01:07:13 PM
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I have a isetta chassis that is in need of repair but im also looking for a rough but repairable body cheap.....
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A lot of peeps could say that. Less of them would finish the job!
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-ISETTA-BODY-PARTS-/291176340269?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item43cb765b2d
How about that one?
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Or you might want to consider this one, even if you don't want to go topless.
It is also lhd, and a better handling 4 wheeler to boot.
It comes with a complete and unrusted chassis, suspension, brakes and everything else still attached, except the drivetrain that you presumed already have.
The body has been stored indoors in California, as someone stopped short of making a convertible out of it, so has completely unrusted floors, and most everything else.
Stuart's seller also has a spare roof and left side glass for sale off eBay, so all you would need is the right side flat glass and windshield (new for about 70 gbp), and you would have your funabout, with your original parts as spares.
Shipping from Los Angeles is considerably cheaper than the other way round, and the car could be shipped as a roller.
Better yet make a holiday of it , bring your tape measure and camera, and you can help me lift off the FF3 body shell, and put the chassis back underneath this Isetta body. Of course I'd put you up for the week, and even give you a newer reliable Cadillac to cruise around the Southern California car attractions for the week.
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Oops, ::) forgot to mention the price of the whole package.
About 2 k gbp would take care of it.
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I think I prefer it without a roof! Engine, well chap in Oxford showed the way here. Get an old bottom end and restore it. Put the 700 top end on made out genuine metal taking the engine to a big valve 350cc and burn off the Messerschmitts.
Yet no one has followed his lead which is why I always bracket Isetta owners as wanting to remain fairly original, small car and pootling rather than modifying and looking for performance beyond the cars capabilities unlike certain other marques of small car. For they realise its easier to buy a different, faster car! Gold star to the majority of Isetta owners. Still not the car for me but that is another story.
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At least the fumes could escape from that one Steven. ;D
Maybe you are not aware of the fact that you cannot swap three wheeler and four wheeler "transmissions" around, the chassis are specifically built to accept one or the other.
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Well then, I guess I'd have to keep the price firm at 2k gbp and throw in the chaincase and rear axel and wheels.
So, for which market was the lhd 3 wheeler intended?
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Intended for the UK market.
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Uh ? Lhd for the uk ? Surely not ?
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remember the question was about the three wheeler.
In the uk we first got the LHD four wheeler then the LHD three wheeler and then the RHD three wheeler. There was a some cross over in between.
The three wheeler was made to satisfy the quirky road fund license laws in Britain.
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Bugner, I forgot the biggest design flaw of them all. The Isetta was LHD for ages. The RHD was only ever a botch to get the steering and controls over the other side and is inferior to the LHD in several ways. Darn, I missed getting the boot in.
Do you own that Isetta Steve? I have a complete engine and gearbox I never got round to outing.
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lol good to see the topic changing direction or off topic lol ;D
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Well back to the topic then.
Yes Al, I own and keep this Isetta in my own purpose built brick and mortar microcar garage in the lot that I inhabit.
Your engine could be useful to myself if I were to have a go at it, but might be duplicitous to Messyman, should he decide to proceed with this platform along the lines that he has already expressed.
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Well the eBay one is still running so I guess we wait with baited breath.
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Running is something it clearly hasn't done for at least a few decades.
And it has no door or floor or glass for that matter, so even with baited breath would no longer function as a fish trap.
On a more usefull note: I just gave up on repairing deep gouges on my Allcars Snuggy windshield glass- as all my research shows that it cannot be accomplished without significantly damaging optical quality.
Clear fillers will not work on a gouge either.
However seeing that it is a flat glass, I found a local shop the said that they could cut me a new one for about $180.
The price was based on its size, so flat glass for an Isetta should be really cheap. Probably best to make a card board pattern for them to copy, and end up with crystal clear unscratched panes.
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;D so I guess theres not an isetta shell hidden somewhere like in a shed or up a tree or with a tree growing through it
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Are you sure you do not want a cheap unrepairable Isetta shell on the basis that you are willing to repair it where most would find it impractical?
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lol you obviously don't know what im like and what I do and what im capable of ....lol ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D