« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2013, 01:06:33 pm »
Yea gods. A Hoffman Autokabin! Well as near as your going to get.
It is all the rage to re engine or tune up microcars to go faster, see the American productions. Trouble starts when a conversion has been done very well and then convergent thinking has someone else try the same thing. Has to be as good or better or its all really rather boring to all but the guy doing it if it is not. It is an odd thing to do as well, as you could buy a bigger/better car designed to do the speed you want. So I guess it is more about being the centre of attention for many, though some will point to the challenge. John Bannell springs to mind. An engineer needing to exercise his considerable skills.
As for the picture. Is that the end of the old caption competition.
'Where is that pretty young lady now I have used the ladder, can opener and Motorcycle to get her blown up Isetta going again?'

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