{"id":1291,"date":"2011-03-09T12:16:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T21:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredspics1.wordpress.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2011-03-09T12:16:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T21:16:28","slug":"little-car-from-a-big-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"Little Car From A Big Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click on pictures to <span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Z O O M<\/span> in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg=IsettaBMWIMG_7582.jpg=isettabmwimg-7582.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/cars\/small\/IsettaBMWIMG_7582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"382\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">This car was first designed and built in Italy by Iso SpA in the mid 1950&#8217;s.  There were about 20,000 produced in Italy.  In 1954 BMW made a deal that not only licensed them to produce the cars but also took over all of the tooling from Iso SpA.  BMW later re-engineered the car and produced well over 160,000 cars from 1956-1962.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg= IsettaBMWIMG_7585.jpg=isettabmwimg-7585.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg= IsettaBMWIMG_7585.jpg=isettabmwimg-7585.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/cars\/small\/IsettaBMWIMG_7585.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/FZ18\/zoomr3.htm?jpg= IsettaBMWIMG_7576.jpg=isettabmwimg-7576.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"align:none aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/pinball2k.net\/cars\/small\/IsettaBMWIMG_7576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">BMW Isetta<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BMW made the Isetta its own. They redesigned the powerplant around a BMW one-cylinder, four-stroke, 247 cc motorcycle engine which generated 10 kW (13 hp). Although the major elements of the Italian design remained intact, BMW re-engineered much of the car, so much so that none of the parts between a BMW Isetta Moto Coupe and an Iso Isetta are interchangeable. The first BMW Isetta appeared in April 1955.<br \/>\n1955 BMW Isetta 250, BMW Museum, Munich, Germany.In May 1962, three years after launching the conventionally modern-looking BMW 700, BMW ceased production of Isettas. A total of 161,728 units had been built.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BMW_Isetta#BMW_Isetta_.28Germany.29\">More Information, click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This car was seen just around the corner from my house, what a rare find.  If you know more about these cars or know the year, please leave a comment, I would appreciate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on pictures to Z O O M in. This car was first designed and built in Italy by Iso SpA in the mid 1950&#8217;s. There were about 20,000 produced in Italy. In 1954 BMW made a deal that not only licensed them to produce the cars but also took over all of the tooling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/?p=1291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Little Car From A Big Company&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cars-ydse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}