Tiniest Cars Ever Made | Microcar Show | MicroSouth
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- On this episode, we’re heading to a big show full of tiny cars. MicroSouth is a super fun gathering in Longwood, FL featuring a huge variety of the smallest cars ever made! We start off with a 14HP Microcar built off of a scooter platform in the late 1950’s. With the front and back both opening the same way, it’s hard to tell if the Zundapp Janus 250 is coming or going. Amazingly, this symmetrical little ride was built for a family of four. Just wait until you see how everyone fits inside.
Next up is a rare aviation-themed roadster that was one of only 50 ever built. The 4-wheeled Messerschmitt TG500 Tiger is one high performance Microcar. Powered by a 494cu.in. two stroke 2-cylinder engine, this aeronautical automobile definitely flies down the road.
Then we check out a really cool little Fiat Multipla microvan. Packing a whopping 4-cylinder 600cc engine and an early version of hideaway seats, the 1959 Multipla was a great family vehicle as well as a work horse.
After that, Dennis discovers a neat two-door car made by Vespa! The 1958 Vespa 400 came standard with a rollback convertible top, and a tiny 2-cycle engine. It’s no race car, but it sure looks like a fun way to cruise around the Sunshine state.
We wrap this show up with a sweet fiberglass bodied British 2-seater that’s basically a 4-wheeled motorcycle. The Berkeley is a chain-driven roadster powered by an Excelsior motorcycle engine. It’s light as a feather and fast for a microcar.
They say good things come in small packages and this show definitely proves it!
0:00 - Intro
2:22 - Zundapp Janus 250
5:07 - Messerschmitt TG500 Tiger Roadster
7:58 - 1959 Fiat Multipla Microvan
10:02 - 1958 Vespa 400
12:34 - 1958 Berkeley
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The world needs micro cars like these again.
i've had a smart for 10 years, never Mercedes, too damned expensive to maintain and repair!
If you want to be squashed on the interstate by big rigs
do you know what the name of the black car at 0:52-0:58 is? please let me know if anyone knows, i really like the car...thanks
@@irfanzamhuri469 That appears to be a 1959 Goggomobil Ts-250.
@@Thinginator thanks for information 🙏
Generally I dislike minivans, but I really like that Fiat Multipla. Nice streamlining, cute design, and can apparently carry 6 people! Thats pretty damn clever packaging for such a small car
very cheap.
It carried 6 people in 1953 but think it might suffer a bit today with the fast food generation...
How can these cars not put a big smile on your face!? I wish they would come back 😥
Most people talk about the tiny cars. I can't get over the fantastic mustache.
I just love The Messerschmitt Tiger. It is an absolute work of art!
that fiat is impressive, 6 passengers in something of that size
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i’d love to have a Zündapp Janus one of these days
The Zundapp has to be one of the most interesting car out there.
See the Trabant? Made of phenolic resin and cotton fibers.
2:31 Dennis, Had I seen this show before you featured my Powell I would have showed you my Zundapp tattoo ! I had a '56 Bella R201 scooter, very art deco
meep meep. we need em again.
Can't believe that all old car in very good conditions. Love it very much
the Zundapp Janus is a true mid engined car
i low key want to build a frame car with that double folding front and rear seat around the engine mabye even another folding seat in the back facing the rear seats for 6 people if i have room to fit it the storage capacity if the other rear seat folded into the first would be unreal
:-) Little pearls of history: Fiat 600 multipla was widely used as a taxi or family car in Italy... the BMW isetta was built with the ISO "Rivolta" license, the BMW factory was in crisis and this car somehow resolved the destiny of the BMW (1958)
**I think it was more of "right time, right need" as far as production of the 'BMW swing-front' was concerned...the factory still had hundreds of spare aircraft parts around , and sales for the 'R'-series motorcycles were lagging because they were 'built too well' and the market was already saturated in the '50's...what to do?** Some creative engineering blending 'old parts never used' with 'new stuff never tried before' resulted in a 'dinky' auto for Berliners to get around in...that cost less than a 'top-line' motorcycle! (besides...it's difficult to play 'touchy-feely' with a girl behind you on a motorcycle seat, not to mention it's cold in Germany in Fall and Winter) The 'allure' of the little auto didn't last for long...about 3 or 4-years...but most of the younger crowd Germans and American GI's thought they were 'too cool for school' in that era.
do you know what the name of the black car at 0:52-0:58 is? please let me know if anyone knows, i really like the car...thanks
That yellow Honda Beat 😍 I love me a good Japanese Kei-car
I always enjoyed the episodes that featured weird cars. Love these! Thanks!
Amazing cars, really unique stuff. I love the sound of people talking in the back ground, makes it feel like a great friendly place with people swapping stories with each other.
This video is definitely enjoyable, the host, the car owners, and their cars
Great show! !! Thank you
The Vespa 400 was designed and licenced from Vespa but the manufacturer is the French company ACMA (Atelier de Construction de Motocycles et Automobiles = Automobiles and Motorcycles Workshop ). It is unclear if ACMA licenced an existing design or if they asked Vespa to design the car.
What's for sure is that the Vespa 400 was only built and sold in France; the company capsized after poor sales (31 000 cars were made), mostly due to the high concurrence from other cars on the market and the comparatively high price of the Vespa 400.
It should be noted that a few years before, a company named VELAM (VEhicule Léger A Moteur = Light motorized Vehicle) (Creative people, heh?) licenced the Isetta from Iso, so there is also a French Isetta. Unlike the BMW, the VELAM Isetta sold poorly (figures are hard to find, but Velam made less than 8000 Isetta) and VELAM closed a year after ACMA started production of the 400
One of your better shows. They are all fun to watch but this one was pretty cool..
This was a really fun episode. I wish Speedvision had not gone away.
Wauw wauw and again a super wauw!!!!!
Put your channel at my favourits!
I love these cars more and more!
Kind regards, Milco Philips from The Netherlands.
Made my day ... one day I'll own a Messerschmitt TG500 Tiger be it a replica or an original. Maybe a replica would be even better, I could put a nice modern scooter engine in there.
Simply amazing car!
Probably all the cars in this show , combined, have a total horsepower output smaller than a Hemi engine
if I had a Janus, I would name it Hugh...
Thanks for shairng Denis!
❤ love those tiny cars 🚗 😍
I like that little Austin Seven, I know someone in Florida with one, it's over 80 years old but still runs like a champ!
Its just a rebadged MG Midget.
do you know what the name of the black car at 0:52-0:58 is? please let me know if anyone knows, i really like the car...thanks
This was a really great episode! I enjoyed it very much.
Pure enjoyment!
Wow! I wanted to visit there. I couldn’t make it. Thanks, heaps!!!
Cool Video! Cool Cars! Love it!
I love it!
2:05 - Trabant 601. Most spreaded car in East Germany before 1989. Two cylinder two stroke engine with 600cc. Famous for the cover of the U2 album "Achtung Baby!"
Owned one in 1990. Hated it and do so until today.
I always thought that all the meserchmiths were three-wheeled I had never seen one of four great video greetings 👍👍👍
I found my new favorite CZcams channel
I love them
Scootacar! Built 2 miles down the road from me in Hunslet, Leeds.
Aww they didn't talk about the little car at 2:07!
I remember Goggomobiles being given away on the old TV quiz shows when I was a kid. Back in the 50s my uncle was a Chrysler-Plymouth dealer and got a Goggomobile dealership. They sent him 2 cars and a nice enameled sign for the front of the building. He sold one car and the second one ended up being used for parts to keep the other one on the road. Later it was pushed into the woods behind the building where it rusted away for decades. The sign was still there when the building was demolished in the mid 80s to build a convenience store. The good old days :)
In the UK the Bond Bug was a favourite giveaway for quiz shows - the Golden Shot was one such show.
do you know what the name of the black car at 0:52-0:58 is? please let me know if anyone knows, i really like the car...thanks
@@irfanzamhuri469 It's a Gogomobile 250 TS Coupe, came out in 1957.
@@barryervin8536 ooo thanks your information 👍
Thanks for a GREAT video!
We're going to shoot the 2018 micro car gathering in Nobember at the Ace Cafe in Orlando . Should be a blast!
Excellent! Wife and i enjoy your videos, i think she is becoming a car nut! LOL
very nice
This is one of my favorite episodes. I'd love to drive a micro car. I bet they'd sell if a modern car company put one out today.
do you know what the name of the black car at 0:52-0:58 is? please let me know if anyone knows, i really like the car...thanks
very good video👍👍👍
good!!
Man that 59 Fiat is well planned out :-)
this good
BMW has a patent on the steering column moving when door opens. That's why these other ones don't move.
I've owned lots of sports cares, from Porsche's to Jaguar XKE's, but the funnest one I every owned was an MG Midget. You didn't so much get inside of it as you kind of "put it on". LOL
I liked FIAT van very much..
ACMA "Vespa 400" - built in France through the ACMA is never imported in Italy not to obstruct the Fiat with its 500, or rather, the Autobianchi "Bianchina" to which it is very similar. :-)
I did'nt know that, still Vespa is Italian for wasp.
13:53 all the strength is in the moustache. you must never cut it!
Amazingly, there was a Janus dealer in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1958. It had at least 5 or 6 cars in stock, based on a photo of the building.
its a damn shame i never got to live during these times as i would have killed to see one in person to take some inspiration for my frame built car
do you know what the name of the black car at 0:52-0:58 is? please let me know if anyone knows, i really like the car...thanks
@@irfanzamhuri469 It's a Goggomobile, as the narrator says. It's from Germany.
@@hebneh thanks for your information 👍
I wish they went around to ask what kind of MPGs they got on these things. I remember the Izetta growing up and the Animal, but not much else of the others.
Zundapp, a lemon character from cars2.
Oh man, I use to luv watching this show, Trucks, and MotorTrend every Sunday morning on TV. Whatever happen to them?
We're on Velocity Channel, MAV TV and Rev'n. myclassiccar.com has the air times. Thanks for watching!
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Wow, the first Fiat Multipla ever !
julosx 87
julosx No, it's not the first serial Fiat Multipla, and the body was made by Abarth
what is the boat? is it really a wee nautique?
It is like Wacky Races of the real world
Even the owner of the Berkeley can't pronounce Berkeley correctly!
Does anyone know what that old time looking car is? Best i can describe it! It shown at around 18:50
+Dylan Piekarski the little wagon in the background if that's the one is a Crosley .they made refrigerators too
Nice to see an Austin 7 in the US
And a Renault Dauphine as well.
Is anyone aware of what the silver one on the left at 0:20 is called? Thank you!
I saw a Zundapp Janus in 1959 in Kaiserslautern.
Good for you!
What is that little red coupe next to the sunshade?
Probably a pain in the ass to work on, but the Zundapp's engine placement makes a lot of sense from a handling standpoint, with its engine mounted low in the middle. Then again, it's a German car, so a small sacrifice to serviceability for the sake of performance is expected.
They forgot to mention that the Fiat Multipla was build on the chassis of a Fiat 600.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_600#Multipla
8:23 The passenger had the safety of a spare wheel as crumple zone.
Where and when is this convention / car show happening next?
The car at 18:50 was 1958 Berkley roadster. They don't have the Rambler Metropolitan, Crosley, or the Freeway.
57WillysCJ There is no 18:50
does anyone know what the name of the black car at 0:52-0:58 is? please let me know if anyone knows, i really like the car...thanks
The guy at 2:19 is pulling a 3/4 scale motorcycle made by the Ridley Motorcyle Company.
IamTheEggMan What the hell are you on about?
Thats the car from cars OMG
I am Tommy at here Indonesia very like ZUNDAAP CAR...because very little and Good...Classical Model and Simple...OK
Im also indonesian. Tapi aku gak suka zundapp, karena... Kekecilan... Aku gak suka zundapp
My biggest grouse about this episode is that they did not interview the guy with the H-M-Vehicles Free-Way. They talked to the people with the famous German, Italian and British microcars (and a French one; the Vespa 400 was actually built for Vespa in France, beyond the reach of Fiat), but they didn't talk about the microcar from the United States.
SamBlob Where was GoGomobile from? It sounds very american to me
The Goggomobile was from Germany, and it predated the “go-go” period of the 1960s. The name is pronounced “gog-oh-mobile”.
Does anyone know the car at 0:35?
I KNOW that's the one I was the most curious about too! It's straight up a Jetsons car. Imaginary cars of THE FUTURE, 1950's version, bubble dome thing that was never actually made...but...it's real. Also what's the weird little silver one?
The one at 0:35 is a Peel Trident. See www.rumcars.org/c-ptri.html for some info. The one at 0:19 (on UK plates showing a first registration date of 1965) would appear to be a Scootacar Deluxe.
Guanderfuld o yea
One question why no citcar or comuta car as they were actually built there In Florida.
What kind of car is the model t looking car at 2:05?
probably some from of a *Model T*
It's an Austin 7 "Box Saloon", extremely popular in the UK in the 1930s. Credited by some for putting the UK on the road!
nick turner An common old Austin 7, the predessessor to the popular Austin Mini, which in it's early years was also called the Austin se7en
Now electric assist Velomobiles are trending popular... Anyway, its what I want.
494ci? you mean 494cc :P Though I would love to see an 8+ liter engine in a Messy XD
I see I'm not the only one that caught that
robvlob Yeah I was like... HUH?!! lol
H31MU7 Yeah, noticed too. Funny how Gage didn't. Seems to show how one of the above commenters was right when he said Gage talks like someone who doesn't know cars.
By then way, 494 cc=30 ci. Fifteen ci per cylinder, whereas, say, 350 Chevy has 44 ci per cyl.
***** Messerschmidt :D
i was gonna mention cc not ci too. if it had a 454 in it thered be no room for a human
I'm upset theres no Martin Stationettes around anymore :(
Nightlife 9 , Lane Motor Museum in Nashville has one!
"That's Correct"
How many models of these goofy little cars were mass produced?
The Fiat Multipla is one of the mass produced car. And Goggomobil.
Jeffrey314159 Just about all in this video
does anyone know what kind of boat that is at 20:15
Roman Scanlon There is no 20:15
I knew you would be here.... was your subaru 360 there?
494 cubic inches? If that were true it would equal a bigblock v8. More like cubic centimeters . 494 cc> which would be 30 cubic inches.
4:39, wtf, dont put your feet there, it will damage the paint
Where is this
I wonder if any one has had the idea to stuff a busa motor in to the Janus. Or a TC88 Harley motor.
Vespa or rennet is my favorite
What car is at 2:12????
A Messerschmitt KR200
Messerschmitt 350 Super
morgan It's a Zundapp Janus
shame there was no peel p50
Or the Clarckson P45
AJSSPACEPLACE I saw one driving by, but he didn't mention it
What's up about the p45
Play on words. A P45 is a form you get in the UK for tax purposes when you leave a job, although it has become a phrase for getting the sack! According to Wiki, it's sort of the same thing as a 'pink slip' in the US.
i dont know why but i find these cars kindah cool, i dont know big cars are kindah dumb in a city anyways, u cant find parkinglots/parking is a bit more difficult and they mostly cost more taxwise too.
13:58 It legitimately says 'erect nipples' on the dashboard. wot
Rulke 4 You either have better vision than me, or you're just delusional
It definitely says that
Does anyone know the red car at 1:54?
It's the same car at 0:28, 0:30, 1:51. I would also like to know what it is.
BigChiefWiggles V I honestly have no clue
😃😃😃🤗👍
Kinderwagen)))
what that light blue car at 1:20
i think its a peel trident
yes it is. if you pause you can see it says trident on the rear bumper
thank you
Jamaal Pucci There is no blue car at that point
Jamaal Pucci At 1:25 the blue car is a Smart Car
3:46 where's the seat belts? Not gonna take the kids for a ride in this thing..
Jeffrey314159 It's a 1950s car, seatbelts were only invented then anyway.
2:50 why is there a trabant at a micro car show
Turbotube Small enough car, and Daf Daffodils