Tony's Messerschmitt

[Rob Dobie]

EEEEK!   NO THANKS.
How about front lights, side lights, interior lights, different size bulbs, wire connectors, anything but rear lights!  

Oh yes. Welcome to the forum MesserC, from one of the nutters. Rob.  

Good luck with the restoration.  

[Jean]

Hello all, lot's of off topic banter and conflicting opinions, happy days, but back to the subject: Tony's Messerschmitt, is now my Messerschmitt and is in it new home in the west of Ireland where it will stay for the foreseeable future and will undergo restoration as time/finance/parts availability allows and then be USED. Any info, articles, pics of this car any of you guys might have saved or seen from the past would be a great interest to me, as it's story is just as important to me.

Welcome to you MesserC  I do hope you enjoy being a part of this crazy gang, their barks are far worse than their bites !!!!! Don't forget to let Alastair Lauchland have your name and address because I am sure that Tony's Messerschmitt has a RUM Number and we do like to know where each car is living.      Jean

[Grant Kearney]

Hello Francis,
Welcome to the forum.  Your are very lucky to own such a well known KR200.  Here is probably the earliest known photograph of 503RKE taken in 1964 before Tony
owned it.  There should be many more picture of it during Tony's ownership though.  I am sure that it even featured in that gents publication 'Mayfair' in 1977 in the most tasteful manner 
I hope you enjoy the restoration process and perhaps retain the period metallic blue colour from it first restoration
Grant

[Barry]

We should recreate that picture.  Where was it taken and what does it look like now?
Easy to find a few Messerschmitts.  Not so easy to find a jumper like that though!

[Rob Dobie]

Three pictures from Tony's eBay Ad. and the nearest I could find of a jumper.

I've got too much time to waste. 

[NickPoll]

I recognise the registrations 661 MPK and XLX 132. I'll have to do a bit of memory digging to remember where though.           Nick.

[Big Al]

Make a nice jigsaw puzzle picture. Pic says Hillingdon. So no parking and soon no 2 strokes. The Cafe will be Sillybucks now where you need a mortgage for a snack and the pub will be closed and turned into an ethnic minority meeting place with Government money. The No Entry sign will no longer be on that lovely old post but facing the wrong way on a green and passinger friendly modern job, probably with a CTV camera on top. I cannot wait to not go there.

I was going to say that I thought RKE featured large in the famed Mayfair Bubblecar expose. Be more fun recreating the pictures in that but there we go.

Welcome to the Forum where there can be whole levels of experience apparently unrelated to Microcars. I blame those old jumpers myself.

[MesserC]

Guys, sincere thanks for the warmest of welcomes and that excellent picture. Any more info or links would be greatly appreciated whenever they pop to mind. I'm game for recreating that picture, won't be able to confirm a date just yet. Al through could rush the restoration for the recreation in Mayfair. Does anyone know the Volume and or issue number of the mag. I found a similar item for sale but from 1990.

http://www.preloved.co.uk/adverts/show/102100626/karen-brennan-mayfair-vol-25-no-6-karen-brennan-1990.html

Speaking of jumpers, Tony was wearing quite a nice jumper when we meet. Looking forward to keeping him informed on the progress with little machine as it develops

[Trident]

Does anyone know the Volume and or issue number of the mag.

I've got the magazine but the pages are stuck together. 

[Rob Dobie]

My Mummy always told me to be aware of dirty men!  

[Rob Dobie]

We should recreate that picture.  Where was it taken and what does it look like now?
Easy to find a few Messerschmitts.  Not so easy to find a jumper like that though!

Found it!  Photo from their web site.
 
The Red Lion Hotel, Royal Lane, Hillingdon, Uxbridge, Middlesex. UB8 3QP

Put that address in Google Maps and you will find it on the street view just off the A4020 Uxbridge Road. Looks as if the next door cafe is part of the hotel now.

There's an undertakers next door! 

[Rusty Chrome (Malcolm Parker)]

That's a fabulous pic - looks like slide film? Thanks for sharing and very interesting to see the place as it is now. I found this site the other day which allows you to pin your old photos to their locations if you like that sort of thing!

http://www.historypin.com/photos/#/geo:51.409008,-1.044914/zoom:16/date_from:1840-01-01/date_to:2001-12-31/marker:7433022/

[Grant Kearney]

Well done Rob, a good bit of detective work.  I believe that these KR200s belonged to MOC (L&SE) members who a few years later formed the MEC which had its strong hold in North/West London.
Happy Christmas to all.  Had a couple of hours working on the Frisky Sport today before being called in doors for some festive dining, there is always tomorrow though 
Grant

[wilksie]

I love recreations providing some of the other cars still exist. To the determined the new yellow lines will present no obstacle.
Happy Christmas!

[MesserC]

Guys,

I was talking the Tony the other week and he does remember it being in Mayfair but cant remember when exactly and he doesn't have a copy. 'Mayfair' in 1977 in accordance with scootacar.
Anyone else know anything about this as I'm failing to find it.