Going four-wheeling with the Messerschmitt K-106
Messerschmitt K-106 A little while back, reader Jean-Claude Marcoux came across a photo of an unusual little four-wheeled, rear-engined car being called a Messerschmitt in an article in the November...
View ArticleSix Degrees of Automotive Separation – Messerschmitt
We haven’t seen many – if any – microcar companies in the Hemmings Six Degrees of Automotive Separation Challenge until now, and that’s probably for good reason: microcar builders tended to go it...
View ArticleModels in Messerschmitts
After the streamlined cars, the alt-power GM cars, the photos from the GM Proving Ground and several others that we’ve yet to show, we’re not quite sure what to expect from David Greenlees, save for...
View ArticleCamera-ready concepts
Since the Fräulein in the Messerschmitt photo, David Greenlees has continued sending us several photos which are at the same time remarkable and unremarkable. Remarkable for the cars in the photos:...
View ArticleFour-Links – Messerschmitt racing, Fall Guy jump montage, surf guitar and...
* Messerschmitt racing. That is all. (via) * Anybody want to explain why Bo and Luke and the General Lee get the 1980s nostalgia crowd all worked up and Colt and his GMC don’t? (via) And there does...
View ArticleMicrocars at Mecum, and Other Assorted Imports
Lot T136: 1964 Goggomobil TS-250 January is a busy month with regards to auctions, especially in Scottsdale, Arizona. But just after the clean-up crews have called it a day out west, things start to...
View ArticleAuction Roundup: Mecum at Kissimmee
Officially, Mecum Auctions‘ annual Kissimmee, Florida, sale is a wrap and the final numbers are interesting. During the five-day sale, a total of 1,500 automotive/truck/motorcycle/boat lots crossed...
View ArticleMicro Cars Among the Celebrated at Upcoming Krasl Concours
Organizers of the seventh annual Krasl Art Center Concours – scheduled for Saturday, August 13, and held on the grounds of the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, Michigan – have assembled a field of 80...
View ArticleMicrocar Megafun in Boston
Tiny vehicles of all sorts will be descending on suburban Boston this weekend for Gould’s 16th Annual Microcar & Minicar Classic Event, a gathering that promises fun for participants and...
View ArticleHemmings Find of the Day – 1962 Messerschmitt KR200
In this day and age of monster SUVs towering over traffic, we can’t believe too many Messerschmitts are regularly driven on public roads, but we say why not? They’re thrifty, sure, but you’ll also...
View ArticleWorld’s largest microcar museum to close, head to auction
Photos courtesy Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum and RM Auctions. In 1991, Bruce Weiner didn’t know what a microcar was. He’d never heard of the diminutive fuel-sipping cars that were popular in post-war...
View ArticleThe king in a bubble, or, King ‘Schmitt
I’ll be here all week, folks, make sure to tip your waiter. Photo of Elvis’s Messerschmitt was taken in 1956 for Look magazine and posted earlier today on Shorpy. So was Elvis’s Messerschmitt painted...
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