MicroCar Museum (for the Sports and Leisure crowd) - Set 2; 6 Images

[RPS]

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Note: I posted a different set of images on the "Technology and Industry" forum before remembering that the vintage auto crowd tends to hang out here ... accordingly, I provide some additional images here related to the same topic. For those who may be so inclined, this is the link to that other page: MicroCar Museum - Madison, GA

 

Drive east about 50 miles from Atlanta to Madison, GA and one finds Bruce Weiner's MicroCar Museum. This fascinating museum displays a wonderful, and diverse, collection of "microcars". For the most part, these diminutive automobiles were manufactured in Europe during the difficult years following WW2 as a practical response to acute shortages of materials, gasoline and money.

 

The images that follow represent just a small taste of that museum's amazingly interesting collection. All images were made with my D-Lux 4.

 

1959 FMR Tg-500

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1955 Fuji Cabin

 

1958 Brütsch Rollera

 

1951 Reyonnah

 

1959 FMR Tg-500

 

1955 Inter 175 A Berline

 

More information about this intriguing museum, and these wonderful cars, can be found here: www.microcarmuseum.com

[pauledell]

Robert,

 

Along with the other series, these are incredible pictures.

 

Paul

[stuny]

Robert -

 

Just as much fun as your other, excellent set.

[MPerson]

Robert - Beautiful crisp images and detail. I am always surprised that a more modern variant hasn't appeared for city/town use with 'greener' motive power - it would be ideal.

 

My three uncles each had the Messerschmitt variant - some irony here as they were all RAF pilots in WWII - and summer Sundays they would take me and my brother off for long trips down to the coast. For some reason they didn't like the Heinkel/Trojan bubblecar, despite the factory being just up the road at Croydon airport.

 

As well as the shortages after WWII, the Suez Crisis in 1956 made micro-cars very popular after a massive price increase in fuel followed by fuel rationing.

[biglouis]

Robert - Beautiful crisp images and detail. I am always surprised that a more modern variant hasn't appeared for city/town use with 'greener' motive power - it would be ideal.

 

My three uncles each had the Messerschmitt variant - some irony here as they were all RAF pilots in WWII - and summer Sundays they would take me and my brother off for long trips down to the coast. For some reason they didn't like the Heinkel/Trojan bubblecar, despite the factory being just up the road at Croydon airport.

 

As well as the shortages after WWII, the Suez Crisis in 1956 made micro-cars very popular after a massive price increase in fuel followed by fuel rationing.

 

Great pictures by Robert and an interesting memory from Andy make this a fascinating set of pictures.

 

I restored an Iseta Bubble car under the instructions of my father in the early 1970s intending to drive it to college each day. In the end it took me so long I passed my driving test and sold it to finance my first car (a mini).

 

What is fascinating is the aerodynamics of these cars which appears to have been lost to the automotive industry until the gas crises of the 1970s.

 

LouisB

[RPS]

Paul, Stuart - thanks for looking and for sharing your thoughts.

 

Andy - thanks for the story as well.

 

Louis - based on the "collectible" quality of the cars in the museum, I suspect you wish you had kept the Isetta.