Description

When casually looking at the average BMW Isetta, it would appear to have only a single wheel at the rear, but in fact there were Two wheels at the rear in the standard configuration, they were just spaced closer together due to the lack of a differential.

Once the BMW Isetta began to be sold to markets outside Germany, tax and licensing laws in different countries sometimes made a 3-wheel vehicle more attractive to a buyer due to lower fees and so BMW made the “Three Wheel Special” available directly from BMW to markets that were not served by Isetta of Great Britain.

Variations of this were sometimes altered slightly to suit certain markets such as Switzerland, where a PAIR of wheels were stuck next to each other, but attached to the 3-wheel assembley. This allowed for better stability and traction, but still allowed the car to be classified as a “3 wheeled vehicle”.

Manufacturer: Bayerische Motoren Werke, Munich, Germany

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This was one of the vehicles sold at the Bruce Weiner Microcar Auction in February 2013. Website owner Harry Kraemer has all of the sale data from that auction in his Market Watch section of his Wheels & Wings site Flymall.org. See link below for the data.

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