Anyone else share my love of tiny old European cars?

[huskerdude]

I think this is about the coolest looking thing on Earth:

Most people (especially car guys) just tend to roll their eyes when I start going on about Fiats and Citroëns, but come on, how can you deny this?

[Steverino]

I always thought the Citroëns were cool. Way back when I was a bodyman and worked as an apprentice to a guy in Columbia, SC who was well known in the area. His specialty was older foreign cars and I got my education stripping them to bare metal and refinishing them. I completely restored a '53 Bentley, a '62 Jag E type (still my favourite) a '61 Austin Healey amongst others. We also restored domestic cars, but I always loved working on the older mostly Bristish cars. We actually had a toolset for these cars called "Imperial" I think... not SAE or Metric. I spent months on that Jag.

[Mark Wein]

Not English but I almost bought this last summer to restore:









I would have looked like a Shriner driving it but it looked like a cool project I could take on myself and just be able to drive around town in.


I don't know very much about European cars...

[Steverino]

I was part of a team that restored a Rambler back in college. Those things are cool as hell.

[Phil513]

I do have a soft spot for those little european jobbies. Actually all micros, i'd love to have a nice example of an old Honda 600.

If i won the lottery i'd have a BMW Isetta in my garage.

[huskerdude]

I couple of years ago I was this close to buying an old "new class" BMW 2002:

I figured San Francisco probably wasn't the best place to learn to drive stick, however, especially on a 35 year old clutch.

[Phil513]

I couple of years ago I was this close to buying an old "new class" BMW 2002:

I figured San Francisco probably wasn't the best place to learn to drive stick, however, especially on a 35 year old clutch.

Yeah, hill starting can be tough learning with a stick, although if you use the ebrake technique its not so bad.

I'd love an old 2002 Tii.

Here is an Isetta. So cool.

[huskerdude]

Yeah, hill starting can be tough learning with a stick, although if you use the ebrake technique its not so bad.

I'd love an old 2002 Tii.

Here is an Isetta. So cool.

That is too awesome. And people complain about Smart cars being too little.

[Phil513]

Check out the entry/egress.

I have long thought that having one of these just for trips to the grocery and stuff would be awesome.

[Mrs.P]

Those are pretty awesome.

I learned to drive stick in San Fran and Monterey. It wasn't so bad.

[tgk03]

I think this is about the coolest looking thing on Earth:
...
....how can you deny this?

Those are very cool.

I've always dug these:

[huskerdude]

I can definitely see myself cruising around the Côte d'Azur or Amalfi in one of these:

smoking like a chimney with a beautiful Italian woman on my arm.

[Denverdave]

The first car I owned was a funky little European car. It was an MG Authi - the Spanish import name for the MG-S 1300.

[Phil513]

The first car I owned was a funky little European car. It was an MG Authi - the Spanish import name for the MG-S 1300.

Extremely cool!

[telecaster911]

The guy that lives across the street from work has one of these, yellow and white... Nash Metropolitan.






I myself had a 72 Triumph Spitfire way back when.

and this little gem for a while.