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Jim Janecek

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Kleinschnittger!
« on: June 18, 2010, 04:20:49 AM »
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280521517905

this car is actually about an hour away from me.
and what is odder is that there is ANOTHER one about and hour and half away sitting in a suburban garage.

why?  where did they come from?  In the middle of the USA.   ???


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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2010, 06:24:44 AM »
Loads and loads and loads of work.......................

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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2010, 09:30:21 AM »
Yeh but well worth the effort, great cars!

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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2010, 10:04:45 PM »
smitt resto now finished!.....need a new project!...... ummmm one is thinking???? I so want one  8)

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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2010, 07:40:41 AM »
quick polish, set up the engine,  off you go!
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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2010, 08:44:34 AM »
Had a few Klienschnittgers. They are actually good fun to own but with my weight I do worry about the original origami wheels. They are also restorable so do not reject one if you fancy a punt. There are plenty of real micro money pits you can chose, bought right the K would not be one of them. Pity the poor Klienschnittger, to svelte to be a Larmar.
I see the need for the rubber mat. Does not stop you driving the car though, Ollie
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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2010, 01:44:33 PM »
Do you have any left Alan? for sale that is ?
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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2010, 09:34:42 AM »
Which, Klienschnittgers, no the last one was RHD and is in a collection. Rubber mats, coming shortly.
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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2010, 01:39:08 PM »
Would that be the one of only two originally imported into Uk and unique by having dynastart?

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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2010, 10:36:08 AM »
 Might be......................
 Not sure of what RHD versions were made to be honest but it was in the UK. Mighty rare anyway. It has been said if I had kept all the rare stuff I had found I would have the best collection of micros in the country. I do not know or care if that is true really because I would also now own a lot of useless and unrestored vehicles I would never get round to doing anything with in a building costing money and worrying about security. No they are better off in most cases going to someone with the ability or finance to restore or stabalise them for the future. I gain pleasure in having touched them and when they reappear as I can think to myself 'I had/rescued that'. Its good enough for me. I have got passed needing to own everything which used to dominate my life. At one point I produced a business plan for a Museum based on one of two sites in the Cotswolds some 12 years before the Cooper's did much the same plan in thier own way. What stopped me was the fact I was creating a lifestyle totally based on small cars and limited by opening times and related business. It is not really what I wanted as you loose freedom. I think both I and the cars are better off for parting company. Some might be surprised about that but it is each to his own.
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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2010, 01:07:25 PM »
To be cryptic, did the car pass through the hands of someone who's name is part of the title of a famous 1971 film starring Maurice Micklewhite?  Is it now in the hands of someone who's name is the title of a US hospital drama starring an English actor with a bad American accent?
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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2010, 03:06:37 PM »
No, not unless you are referring to a later film made in 1971 :D

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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #12 on: June 21, 2010, 04:10:33 PM »
Oh alright 1971, I bet you had to look it up didnt you!

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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2010, 04:16:06 PM »
Mr Micklewhite made quite a lot of films around that time
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Re: Kleinschnittger!
« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2010, 05:34:03 PM »
Would it be the film that co starred 'Britt-Marie Eklund' ?.  I thought she drove a Tourette Supreme from London to  Newcastle and not a Kleinschnittger  ??? or I am getting mixed up with another well known Nottingham gangster  :o.  Oh heck, the Peel mafia will be on to me now.......