Real Micro Cars and Diecast Micro Cars Auction: Bruce Weiner’s Microcar Museum
RM Auctions is selling off the contents of collector Bruce Weiner’s Microcar Museum. This guy apparently collected everything Micro Cars including some things you might recognize …
Dude, where’s the Target box set?
Or if you want to own an ACTUAL (Professor Z) Zundapp Janus – probably not many opportunities, here’s your chance!
Or a real Isetta convertible! The guy literally collected hundreds of these real micro automobiles (along with thousands of matching diecasts) – yea, this looks like a diecast but it’s a real car! Good luck!
You can view the online digital catalogue – fun stuff!
27 January 2013
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When i was just a little kid, I remember seeing an Isetta at a new car auto show with my older brothers. It was probably around the vintage of the 1956 Isetta pictured above. I remember operating the handle on the passenger side of the front door (the only door, which was hinged on the left side), and watching the steering column pivot away from the seat to allow my brother to get in behind the wheel. I sat down in the passenger seat and as we closed the door, the steering column obediently came back into driving position. Almost everything inside the car was reachable from that spot.
Here you can find a few inside photos of a newer, but similar, model:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Isetta#BMW_Isetta_.28Germany.29
About 7 or 8 years later, I worked with a guy who owned one and drove it to work daily. The biggest problem he had with the car was that the New York State police wouldn’t let him drive it on the Thruway because it couldn’t keep up with traffic. Top speed was under 50 mph.
More recently, about 2 years ago, I spotted one such car parked in Camino, CA, located on Highway 50 up in the Sierra foothills (elevation about 3100, population about half of that). I guessed it must have been towed there, because driving it up (or down) some of the steep mountain grades would have been quite an adventure if not an absolute impossibility!