A Heinkel. :eek:

Was in my mates unit while I was dismantling my engine.... Never seen one in the flesh and apparently this one of just a small number left on the road. It was taxed and everything,

Top speed of 55mph, so no official 0-60.

Also known as a bubble car ....(Ithink) if it is then ....lots of people got trapped in them................ they drove in to the garage and stopped found the door wouldn't open, because the wall was in the way(it opens the front of the car) and there is no reverse gear

I think most were made by issetta though

My uncle used to have one if these:

...in much the same vein!

Strange to think that if BMW hadn't started making motorbikes after WWII, they might have been churning out bubble cars too!

Is that a Meschersmitt?

Genau. Es ist in der Tat ein Messerschmitt!

Is that a Meschersmitt?

[old boy] The fokkers were coming in from the right, the fokkers were coming in out the sun, the fokkers were....

[teacher] ahem, perhaps you'd better explain to the class that the Fokker was a type of German fighter plane

[old boy] Well I would ma'am, but these fokkers were Messerschmitts.

That is the Heinkel version (name on front gives it away!) Not as popular in the Uk as the Isetta Bubble car I had an Isetta because being a 3 wheeler you could drive it on a motorbike licence, and still keep dry(ish) and warm(ish).

Mine was RHD with gear stick (3 forward 1 reverse) on the right. Nil crash protection. Very unstable - once tipped it over doing 10 mph around corner with adverse camber. Still dead easy to lift back on its wheels!

It had a BMW single cylinder motorbike engine. This had white metal big ends rather than shell bearings. They go so quickly. On one journey they started ticking, within 50 miles the play in them was so much that the piston came up and hit the spark plug, poking a hole in it and grinding me to a halt.

Peter how old are you??

Heinkel made German WW2 bombers as well. Looks as though they just painted one of thier big shell casings red and fitted an engine = car.

Just think as well. Heinkels badge is a flying wing. Scary. Similarities ?

Tsk! You kids thinking that noise is a new thing Did you never have a mate with a Velocet - didn't even need to take the bafflers(?) off those things...

Never had one meself of course, I always wanted a car on my

The speedo has 80mph on it !! Can you even imagine it !!

The speedo has 80mph on it !! Can you even imagine it !!

What's more impressive to me is that someone's notched up over 32k miles in the thing!!! :eek:

Do you reckon the blank dial on the right is for a rev counter? I can't imagine you'd need any display devices to tell you when to change gear with a motorbike engine under your bum!!! :confused:

A stopclock, maybe, for timing your runs round the Nurburgring?!

A stopclock, maybe, for timing your runs round the Nurburgring?!

Nah you would need a calender for that

Genau. Es ist in der Tat ein Messerschmitt!

and my parents wasted all that mone on my education:P

Peter how old are you??

Too bloody old :)

My first proper (4 wheeled) car was a side valve Ford Popular - don't get me on that ............. Bloody wipers worked on pressure from the manifold - the faster you went the slower they went.

Bloody kids of today ...........