Whats the wackiest, craziest thing you ever saw done in or to an Isetta?
Hmmmm. Let’s leave the “in” part out of this conversation. This is a family site, sort of. Leading up to Number One, it’s hard to beat the Isetta that was converted to railroad wheels and ran on tracks. Next would probably be the one with snow skis replacing the front tires for ski patrol/general winter transportation. By the way, skis were offered as a third party option for Isettas. No doubt, the Big Enchilada has gotta go the Isetta Aerocar (not to be confused with Dave Major’s BMW 600, the original Aerocar). It’s owned by a gentleman and his wife up in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Try and picture this. It’s an Isetta body mounted on a boat trailer. The wheel wells have been covered with sheet metal. There is a pitot tube off of an airplane mounted in the door. It has a single wooden ski mounted to what looks like a small airplane landing strut for steering. This thing is powered by a six cylinder Lycoming aircraft engine hanging off the back with rear mounted, wooden propeller. This
