I bought my first NSU Sport Prinze for $50 in 1968 from a local junkyard with an unknown blown engine.
I towed it home with a rope tied to the bumper of my Mom's station wagon, and had only limited success with it untill I became infatuated with my first early Lotus Europa in 1970.
I then only sought mid engined exotics untill I moved to Toronto for a year in 1980.
I then brought a half dozen 1000 cc Canadian Mini Coopers across the border for selling in the US while using a 1980 version in very good shape as my daily driver for a few years.
Living in the US, where micro cars were generally unseen, I literally did not know that anything else smaller than an NSU, Mini Cooper, or Fiat 500 ever even existed untill looking through a book of World Cars published in the late 50's in 1992.
I bought an HMV Freeway that I happened upon locally almost immediately thereafter, and then unsuccessfully attempted to get a Scootacar Mark one via correspondence with Stephen Boyd, and a Zundapp Janus from Germany where I had exported a few Fiero GTs.
I also tried to buy a Scootacar Mark one, FF3 and a Hienkel engined tractor from Alan's Unusual Microcars, after becoming intoxicated by a plethora of pictures that he had sent me.
But the complexity of Al's migratory patterns, always going to Manheim or such, my own lack of familiarity with affordable and reliable international phone and email service nixed all that for me untill the current century.
Having bought my still current driver, a 2000 Honda Insight in that same year, I travelled to Bruce Weiner's fabulous annual, then semi annual gatherings, and started searching and buying, first intracontinentally, and then intercontinentally by internet untill arriving at my presently pleasantly demented state of importing 8 Sans Permis cars stuffed into a 40 foot container last December.
An enthusiastic, but later bloomer due to ignorance incurred through circumstance of my residence.
