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Subject: [OM] Re: What's in a name - really OT
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:21:33 -0700
I know it was the Isetta. My little joke. That is a wonderful story.



Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Aug 16, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Paul Laughlin wrote:

> At 11:32 AM 8/16/2004, you wrote:
>
>> I thought that was an early postwar BMW, the Isoletta 300, named for
>> the fact that only two slender people or one hefty burgher could fit
>> inside.  :-)
>
> I believe that was the Isetta.  We had a guy that had one in out Air 
> Force
> squadron.  He pulled it into a downtown parking lot in Ft. Worth and 
> told
> the attendant that he needed to park it himself.  The attendant, 
> wanting to
> play with it a little, insisted on parking it himself.  When the owner 
> came
> back two hours later, the attendant was still sitting in the Isetta, 
> parked
> nose in against a brick wall.  He did not how to get the darned thing 
> in
> reverse and couldn't get the front opening door open.  Just a little 
> humor
> here.
> Paul in Portland OR
>
>
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