OK, what is it?

[Jim Janecek]

or what was it?

[Jawmedead]

Looks like a Schmittmesser. 

[Peelpower]

Half a Schmitt, and  half a submarine??!!

I honestly wants to know what it is mates.

Ferdi

[Jim Janecek]

look familiar to anyone?



and the front of the thing:

[Jawmedead]

Isetta headlights?

[Bob Purton]

Isetta front suspension and wheel hubs. Is it an attempt by someone to turn an isetta into there interpretation of a messerschmitt? I cant bear to look at it. Horrid!

[Peelpower]

Doesn't look that bad mates, only the headlights and the japanese indicators of the 70th, hmmm!

[Jim Janecek]

this is a quote from someone else that I think bears repeating here:


"I think we need to name this monster. Frankenschmitt? The Likeness Monster?
Clearly the result of a diabolical cross-breeding experiment gone awry.
A KR200 mother, but what was the father?
Perhaps a cold war era Soviet military vehicle, or maybe the Confederate civil war submersible Hunley.
Truly a crime against theology and geometry."

[marcus]

OK, it's ugly, sacriligious, derivative, crude, etc. It is awful.....but I like it! (copyright Dick Emery)

[Grant Kearney]

But more importanly who is going to put a bid on it 
item no :  160222802974

[inacoma]

"MICRO CAR MAGIZINE ASKED IF THEY COULD SHOT THE CAR WHILE IT WAS BEING TURNED INTO A STREET-ROD "

What he didn't realise is that the wanted to REALY  shoot it

John

[marcus]

It reminds me a bit of the lovely mini submarine in the Tintin books "Secret of the Unicorn" or "Red Rackham's Treasure". On that subject on the last page of one Tintin book there is a lovely picture of a group of cars about to set off on a rally, and it includes a KR175 and a Velam Isetta.
Incidentally, today, Friday , UKTV History is showing the attempted assassination of Princess Ann, and a few minutes in there is stock footage of traffic in London which includes a shot in front of Buck house, and a blue and white Nobel drives by right to Left. Don't blink!

[Bob Purton]

I must watch that, is it in the episode about Lord Mountbatten?

[Stuart Cyphus]

 I like this car! But then I like all one-offs & bodge-ups.  "Truly a crime against theology and geometry."? But then weren't all micros guilty of this in one way or another? Somebody somewhere save this car and don't let the rodders kill it.

 Too many times people either dismiss or condemn a car just becuse it wasn't "factury" built or designed. But then neither were half of the "real" micros we all rave about.  Suerly the very fact that ANY vehicle exists in any shape or form means that that vehicle has some sort of reason & history behind it, no matter if it was built by a vast company or Fred Jenkins down the shed. By some of the comments posted here, it would seem some are happy to just throw anything they personally can't be bothered about in the crusher & to heck with the details without even attempting to check them out.  For all we know, this could have been (for hypothetical example) one of Fritz Fend's back garden project cars from 1979. Or whatever. How do we know? Has anyone checked? But then why should the vehicle be any less interesting even if it wasn't? A lot of work looks to have gone into this thing. Suerly for that reason alone it should at least be given half a chance to try & survive...........

  (Founder member of SPHV; Society for the Preservation of Hideous Vehicles)

[Jim Janecek]

The "car" is in the USA in Florida.

I tried to get the current owners to give me some sort of history of the thing, they were not interested or did not know.
All they wanted was value.
And now all they want is money.

They don't care who built it, they don't care what it is made from.
They think this is Hot Rod Material, never mind that it apparently has no engine and the front suspension is from an Isetta.

They tried to foist it as being a "prototype Messerschmitt".

It is home made. I have absolutely no doubt.
True it is butt ugly but that is part of its charm.
The fact that someone tried to make their own Messerschmitt and had limitations on materials, budget and parts as well as skills really sticks out, but someone said "Hey I can make one of those, how hard can that be?"

But that someone is now gone and all that is left is this curious piece.