Micro Machines

[trigger]

I found this museum whilst looking at someones photo's on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44188770@N05/page32/), This is one place I'd love to go!

 

The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum in Madison, Georgia. http://microcarmuseum.com/index.html

 

They has an excellent website as well with details and photos of every car in there museum, Most of the stuff I've never even heard of before!.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the link to the tour http://microcarmuseum.com/tourindex.html

 

and just for the hell of it have a great video of a Messerschmitt doing a wheelie!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlFaERcPeA

[Station]

Slight lack of japanese Kei cars (ie none). I would've thought that would've been a perfect place for them?

[trigger]

Slight lack of japanese Kei cars (ie none). I would've thought that would've been a perfect place for them?

Surely the Mazda R-360 and Subaru 360 are Kei cars?, I guess most Kei cars are too modern as the Museum specializes mostly on pre 64 cars, (though many are newer than that.

 

P.S can everyone see the photo's I've posted o.k?, One minute i can see them, the next they are missing and have a red cross in the corner?.

 

[UglyAmerican]

I've been!!It's fantastic. It's where I first fell in love with the Berkeley 4-wheelers. Have been dreaming about buying one ever since.

[barrett]

i remember drooling over that website a few years ago, i think it's owned by the guy who sold off a large chunk of his collection in about '97-98, pushing the prices of microcars up to stupid unattainable levels. most have recovered now but 'schmits are still out of reach for most people. nearly at mark one scrote levels!

[Station]

Slight lack of japanese Kei cars (ie none). I would've thought that would've been a perfect place for them?

"Why would I want those god-dam rice-burnin pieces of import she-ite in my good ole A-merican museum here in the good ole, cotton pickin state a Georgia? Are some kinda god-dam commie bastard?"

Exactly!

[Guest]

Eh? They've got a Mazda R360 Coupe and K360 Truck, three Subaru 360s and they used to have a Daihatsu Trimobile (Midget). Sounds like a decent enough Kei-car selection to me.

[Timewaster]

When I saw the headline I immediately though:"MICRO MACHINES COME IN COLLECTIONS OF 5""MICRO MACHINES COME IN COLLECTIONS OF 5"Although they seem to have rather more than 5.

[barrett]

When I saw the headline I immediately though:"MICRO MACHINES COME IN COLLECTIONS OF 5""MICRO MACHINES COME IN COLLECTIONS OF 5"Although they seem to have rather more than 5.

DITTO!

[Station]

Sounds like a decent enough Kei-car selection to me.

Sounds like a tiny fraction of jap micro cars, which I find vastly more appealling than another Isetta bubble car. I'm not moaning, but flipping heck, you can have -too many- of those frigging Messcherschmidt things.

[pompei]

IIRC a large chunk of this collection was sold off at auction (Bonhams?) in the 90's. A bloke I met had bought a Fiat Multipla which I went to see with a view to buying. He then had a change of heart and decided to keep it (along with his collection of SC100s and Muranos)