Isetta 300 Drive
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Since we are all in the Christmas microcar spirit, I have an idea for a new Christmas Carol jingle. Oh what fun it is... to drive an Isetta today....!! hahaha. One or two people really can't have more fun on 4 wheels ! I'm having a little fun with this 1957 Isetta before it goes home to it's rightful owner. It runs, stops, turns just like it should. What a cutie. If you are into microcars like this Isetta featured here why not like my Facebook page called " Magnificent Microcars " Here is the direct link. / magnificent-microcars-... I post interesting microcars every day !
I dont know why, im 30 Y old, but i love these little and old cars over new ones.
+oscar lobaton same here
M3
you appreciate character, most your age don't have a clue
Dude you are 35 now how odd is the aging
Ya i dream this car
Parts are easy to find, but beware, they are NOT cheap. Get the idea that small and cute = $. I took the engine cover off for test and tune. Super fun cars !
There's no way back after you discover Isetta.......
I be afraid to drive one these cars knowing my luck I would become a hood ornament on a big truck, but it is a cute car if you are brave enough to drive it
I am brave !
isnt this was steve urkle drove?
Lol my moms mower is 23 hp. Anyways the Engine in that sounds Locke one in a Honda generator lol
I cringe when I think of this little deathbox mingling in late '50s US traffic with the most immense finned American cars all around, ready to squish it and its occupants...
hebneh Atleast it wasen´t 3 wheeled like the ones in Britain, Sweden and Austria. It had too be 3 wheeled to be drivable on motorcycle licenses.
No kidney grill
Was this car the inspiration for the BMW slogan "the ultimate driving machine"?
Bmw didn't create this lol
Tarık Kömürcü It's a BMW car. You can see the symbol on it. Why would you say BMW didn't create it?
maxpowers3732 i mean it wasn't bmw's car make a research about it was italian
Its a BMW
The one tested hear was built by BMW but the original design came from ISO in Italy. BMW bought the rights to manufacture it with their own modified BMW motorcycle engine. They were sold in America in the fifties and many other places in the world.
That's my dream car! I've wanted it since i was 10
Same here! I think it would be awesome to go on a weekend trip in one 😂
Tiny car=Big Balls !
Big car = tiny balls!
Why pepole always have something to folks places
Great video. I owned an Isetta back in the early 60s, so it was all kind of familiar to me. I live in the UK, and our version was a 3-wheeler which complied with British law allowing it to be classed as a tricycle, and you only needed a motorcycle licence to drive it. This was achieved by mounting the rear wheel centrally in the rear fork, moving the chaincase to the left, and connecting it to the engine with a short shaft with a rubber donut universal joint on each end. I often carried two passengers, but hey, we were young and skinny then. On one occasion I had 3 passengers. That was me, my girlfriend and my pal sitting on the seat, and my pal's girlfriend sitting on the floor in front of the other 2 passengers with her knees up to her chin. I also went on a camping trip in it with 2 pals, and somehow we fitted in it with our 2 tents, luggage, sleeping bags, and all our other camping gear. As you probably gather by now, I had so much fun with that Isetta, and I really miss it.
+Replevideo that is so cool! i always feel like i was born into the wrong time when i read or hear these stories. my grandpa also owned an isetta as his first car. he later bought an BMW 700 which he fitted his wife and 5 children (when they were smaller) into. it's crazy if you think about that today.
No country had more three wheelers than UK (Reliant, Morgan, Bond, etc..) taxed as motorbike, while a Mini was taxed like a Rolls Royce.
One of my earliest memories as a child was a new 1958 forest green BMW Isetta parked on the street opposite our house in Portland OR. Even at 4 years old I new Buicks from Fords from Mercedei but had never seen such a hot space age vehicle in my life and when the lady who'd just bought it got into the car by opening up the front I thought she must have bought it on Mars.
Shifting with the left hand is perfectly normal, it's sitting in the passenger seat that's weird.
Cheers from Australia!
Ray
German drivers are are used to sit left but shift with right hand.
Haha.
Eitherway, in right hand side countries the shifter would be at your right.
Sooooooo.........
It's gorgeous! Always wanted one of those. Thanks for the driving lesson!
Urkel's Car!!!!!
Yes! I hear Urkel was eventually able to upgrade to a Edsel
Its an Isetta i said'a, lol!
steve erkel car
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*Urkel
I love this car...glad you've kept it running so well.
Isetta's all have reverse gear, plus 4 forward gears, technically a 5 speed
Thanks for sharing this. I have wanted one ever since I saw one on Heartbeat.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I loved my little Isetta, and would love one now as a fun second car. History lesson:- the Isetta was originally built by an Italian scooter company, Iso I believe, and would originally have had a 2-stroke engine. It was a commercial flop, but BMW saw its potential and bought the design outright from Iso. They put it in production fitted with a 300cc version of the BMW 250cc single cylinder motorcycle engine. It sold well all over Europe where thousands could not afford a real car in a time of austerity, as it offered a more civilised form of transport for a small family than a motorcycle and sidecar combination for about the same price. Performance:- top speed about 50mph, acceleration 0 to 50 eventually. Personal history:- I regularly carried 2 passengers as we were all skinny in those days, and on one occasion 3 with one sitting on the floor wedged between the other passengers knees and the door. I and 2 pals went on a camping trip in it, somehow squeezing in 2 tents, camping stove, and luggage.
Replevideo wow! great memory and great stories.... I love hearing from bubble car veteran's
You still see some of them in Germany. It was wide spread until the late 60s.
The hood is missing!
Steve Urkel's Car
13hp. when it's running well, haha
Do you wanna sell any cars and import them to The uk What’s your Cheapest price? Yes I am 11 but I don’t care if I can’t drive them I’ll keep in good condition and slowly restore...
You could never tell if someone was using a vibrator in there.The whole thing was vibrating so much anyway.
5:00 This vibration is what you get from a one cylinder engine?
Beautiful little car, I really like it!. Thanks for the spin and explaining all the little details, you've a new subscriber 👏
6:36 when you see that big ass van
Raining Bass under rated
@@Slipknot-ku4so 1 year later lmao
It's a real car and very noisy like all cars of these days! I remember my father had a DKW 2 stroke and a Simca 1000 Ralley with the 1200 cc engine right behind the backseat! That gave some roaring sounds and doubled yor sense of speed! It was fun to drive with you in your nice car!
I had one 50 years ago wish I had never got rid of it dead easy to work on never let me down.
It depends. Most fully restored super duper nice Isetta's will fetch $50k. Shop on Microcar.org classifieds or know somebody, and you may get a good driver unrestored Isetta for $15k. Parts heaps go for $3-5k.
Yup. Just a classy, road legal go cart.....that goes up in value daily
i passed my driving test in one of these 3 wheel isetta in 1962
This brings back memories of my early childhood growing up in London, these “bubble cars” as they were known, were a common sight (and sound!) on the streets. As someone else mentioned, they were all 3 wheelers here, I never even knew there was a 4 wheel version. I think there was an external luggage rack accessory you could bolt onto the back.
It’s the good to see the respect and fondness you have the car. 😀 The last fella I saw reviewing an Isetta really didn’t deserve to be driving it. 😠 I wish I still had one. I have so many great memories of driving it around New Zealand! 😀👍🏻
Miałem w 1960 super sprawa , budziło w tych czasach sensację
Smiley little car :)
it sounds pretty good from the inside actually.. wasn't expecting this
i didn't even know cars like this existed...
they are stationary and do not swing out with the steering wheel
Dream car!!
Look how clean your property is! In 1984 I had 24 small cars in my fenced off Honda 600 shop. 2 Berkeleys, 4 Isettas, 2 Multiplas, a boat, Subaru 360 van, 2 Honda s600, and the rest were N & Z 600s
Rated @ 13hp stock, but I put electronic ignition in and pumped up the tires.....so more like 13.5 hp !! haha Yep its got a 4 speed, gear it down you can climb any hill.....slowly but surely
The most ugly car in the world. Phew !!!
Ever seen a Nissan Puke? ...or Pontiac Aztek?
I prefer that Isetta over the 3-wheel Wildfire. That's a real chick magnet.
The door opens like a refrigerator because that is what the Italian company which designed the Isetta, a company called Iso if I remember correctly, actually made. Refrigerators. That's what gave them the idea of the front opening door.
Yes. I will take a long time foot to floor, but yes. It easily goes 50mph with two on board. 60mph just would take longer to get there. Tailwind may help.. ha-ha !
Hi, yes the best hint I can give you is to join the mini-car micro-car yahoo group for parts and information
Interesting that you replaced the con rod with a steel version. My 1958 Isetta (long gone now) had the original con rod and piston, and they were not up to the job. Mine dumped its con rod which caused all manner of horrible internal haemoraging, and would have cost more than the car was worth to fix. The gear change pattern on mine was conventional - same as a VW or Morris Minor. Col, NZ.
I had a 58 300 slider and your car is far from all original (Like the seats all wrong).. I know because I restored it myself. Also had a 56 bubble window which ran but was pretty rough.
Yep, I would have the tires bald in a month if it were mine. I just wouldnt drive anything else, that would be it. Seen you had the hood off. When I was a tech for S--rs, I would be out repairing mowers all the time. One time I repaired a mower, left the hood off and went out across the yard to test drive it. The lady came out yelling at me to not drive it without the hood, it was embarrassing to her for her neighbors to see it like that. Haaa!!
Any ideas on the gasoline/petrol mileage ? Was there a heater for colder climates ? 8800 miles ? not bad shape. Where are you located ? 1 cylinder 4 stroke, air cooled with a refrigerator locking front door
hi 2stroketurbo. i;m in the process of restoring my 57 Isetta, is there any helpful hints that you can give me? I'm trying to do all the work myself. Thanks in advance. After seeing yours, I have a long way to go.
I'm guessing the shifter was on the left because it's (like a lot of these german microcars) seems to be trying to be "airplane-like", so it's got the shifter on the side like that because the throttle on ww2 fighters was on the left.. oddly I'd be curious to know if this pattern was repeated in the Messerschmitt microcars.
You sir are ripe for a microcar like this one !. Feel free to drive with your Isetta hood off ....only the curbside viewers will know....haha
i always thought you could not back up in one. trabant has back up gear, four or five forward gears, and seats four snug. four seat sedan 601cc two stroke air cooled twin. 18 hp for 60 mph.
96 thumbs down? Those people probably don't like puppies, kittens, and Girl Scout cookies.
They really should, although gas prices recently have dropped below 3 dollars a gallon here in the NW of USA . When gas is cheap nobody cares......
AWFUL cars in Duluth, Mn. (STEEP HILLS) bet they were totally GREAT on flat roads!
Do you know what colour your car is painted? I want to paint mine the same colour & think it might be BMW Sand Beige? Do you have any info please?
About how much does it cost nowadays ? and how hard is to get one of those cars?
Hi there. I am considering buying one. But the one I am interested in is out of state. So I haven’t been able to test drive it. Does it have some good pick up or is it pretty slow overall?
Awesome Car. congrats.
Yes idle is greatly improved, IsettaDude sells them, he made a Pertronix kit to fit, he's on the microcar-minicar yahoo group
My grandma always talked about about how much she loved hers, but she said she came home and my grandpa sold it to as she put it "fat lady who barely fit in it" lmao I miss that lady
Excellent! Isetta's are very fun indeed, what a treat you got to work one one. The 400cc blue sports car with electric shift was probably a Goggomobil. Very rare in Japan. If it was the fiberglass Goggomobil Dart then it was imported from Australia .
I had an Isetta in the 70s and I loved it. I repaired and resprayed Isetta's also Reliant three wheelers. Not many car repairers liked working on them so I always had plenty work. It's a pity there aren't many three wheeled cars now as I loved them.
It was a very simple air cooled 1 cyl-4stroke motorcycle engine. 2 valves, one carburator. Not a big deal.
A four stroke,,hmm,it doesn t sound like one.more like a 2 stroke.
My 4 stroke 50cc modern scooter has a much lower sound.
As always nice video and car
Steve Urkel (Family Matters)m brought me here. He said hid uncle paid him 50.00 to take the car
In the video snippet at the end, it looks like the Isetta gets spooked by the van coming down the road. You definitely would have to be brave or crazy to take this thing out onto the road and in traffic.
I have wanted a ride in one of those since I was 6 years old ( that was in 1964) when I saw a Corgi "Bubble Car" on one of the pamphlets that used to come in the Corgi car boxes ( I have about 30 Corgi Cars from the 60's that I collected as a child). I have never even seen one up close, real or the Corgi. From your clip it felt like I could even smell that vintage car - unplastic smell and feel the vibrations. Cool Car!
+rheniformer great review thank you !
Ahhhh. I did not know that. I do know the 4 wheeled Isetta rear binds when turning tightly due to the solid rear axle
haha.. what a blast Mark! I'm wondering.. what hp it makes and will it actually pull two people up hill? thanks for posting!
Steve Urkel's car! =D Jaleel White himself still owns the one on Family Matters.
They should really reproduce these as a sollution to people who can't afford cars, aka me. Smart cars suck these are so much more stylish
Its the "Ercal" car! I don't know if I spelled it right but that sitcom had one.
Man that’s from you gotta do what it takes to make it there was nothing cute about it at the time it was about gotta do what it takes to put bread on the table and get back an forth to work
Be nice to have a little 3-cyl gas engine in that if it’d fit. Less vibration and it’d last longer than the air-cooled
whorayful,its weird for me to shift with the left hand and sit on the passenger side,hellow from USA
Haha loved it...towards the end when you see the big van you turned right around and back..meek meek.
yes !
Three. Two. One.
One. Two. Three.
What the heck...
...is bothering me?
좋은영상 잘 감상했어요.Touch that moment will be surprised???
Too bad you couldn’t see anything but the driver and the shaking is so bad it makes it hard to see
Congratulations!👏
Bonjour a tous du Canada It's not a car it's Kenworth truck suppository
the gear stick is on the right side for us in the UK and Other countries that drive on the left. ;D
What If This Thing Got Into A Headon Colision? You Will Be Dead.
It looks like it has all of the protection of a golf cart.
Modern bikes aren’t any better.
I saw your car today In Portland, on 7th ave. Sweet car!
Where did you buy the electronic ignition? Seems to run a lot better on idle then mine.
Congrats, its the strangest car I've ever seen so far, got a google it to get more infos, I want one of theses...
I see one up close I know someone who has a car just like this only it was the same color as steve urkel car
You mean my crosley hood off.... Haa!! That way people can see the turbo charger.
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I can not imagine this car in todays traffic. I could not do it to myself.
This is probably the only car model with a door at the very front
awwww....i thought it was gonna flip over until i saw it had 4 wheels :/
Imagine The BMW Isetta 300 was a transformer
spent most of my life on three wheels reliants bonds & heinkels
gordon kendall awesome !
it was tough to see out of the front so maybe change the camera?
Dude u are awesome u look like bill nyes the science guys twin