“Hi Lloyd,
Love your blog. Our family regularly follows your postings.
We visited a great Microcar museum recently and thought I’d share our photos:
https://shltr.net/minis4tinys
Anne from Arnoldsville, GA”
This is Messerschmitt, which resembles an airplane cockpit. There were a lot of these in Germany when I was there in the USAF in the late ’50s. The entire top hinges open. Still looks modern.
-LK
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
“Hi Lloyd,
For those based in or visiting Thailand, check out this great *free* museum:
http://www.jesadatechnikmuseum.com/index.php
Scooters to steam trains, but with a major emphasis on microcars.
I used to dream to have like my own collection room/gallery in my home in retirement homes massachusetts.
These kinds of cars are the kind that you’d expect to see in museums! Those oddly assembled bubble cars that always seem to succeed in getting admiration. On a more serious note, though, I think they just portray the automobile standards of their generation. And these cars occurred after the war, which explains their structural similarity with aircraft. Nice!