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Not even "seen" too small cars, I've even made the experience to stuck in cars and couldn't leave them without help.
One time, when I've sat on a NSU-meeting in a Thurner RS (a handmade sport-coupe of fibreglass, based on a NSU TT).
And years later in a Daihatsu(?) Copen(?), when I've visited my Japanese friend. No joking, I couldn't leave and had to yell "Hiroshi, I'm stuck! Please pull me out!"
Disgusting.
And one time a friend an me have presented a scene, which was worth for a slapstick-show. Fortunately it happend i nthe pre-Youtube-times.
It was at our New Zealand-trip in 1998. We rented a car at "Rent-a-wreck" in Auckland. The have offered ca.12-13 old cars, used imports from Japan.
Because we left our luggage in the motel, we had no need for a bigger car, so we have chosen the smallest one. It was a 1986 Honda Jazz (Jazz was the name in Europe).
I (1.89 meter, 110 kg) could sit behind the steering wheel, but it was impossible to screw my legs between pedals an steering-wheel, absolute impossible! No way.
And my friend (1.90 meter, 155 kg) even couldn't use the passenger's seat. It must have been an incredible view, how we were crawling around in the car, but couldn't make it.
Then we went back in office and gave the keys back. We took a 1986 Honda Civic Shuttle, this was usable.
@Ddey65 and taxguy: the cars you are showing, aren't real micro-cars, just smaller cars. In the Europe of the 50ies, we had REAL microcars.
And hundreds of thousands of Europeans culd handle with them for many years.
When my parents were studying in the late 60ies, a friend of them had a Messerschmitt Kabinenroller. He lived in Aurich, a town in the farest Nortwest of Germany, close to the North Sea. His girl-friend lived in Graz, Southern Austria. And yes, he had visited her minimum one time per month. :shock:
In the NSU-fan-scene there is a well known old couple from the town of Hildesheim. They are owning -since 1964 in first hand- a turquoise NSU Prinz 4. The back window of the NSU is full with stickers from everywhere in Europe, even Romania, Iceland, Soviet Union and so on.
Proudly they've told me "Sure the stickers are only from countries,where we had been ourselves. We've travelled in every European country, to the Eastern Block-countries all before 1990".
I got big, uncomprehending eyes and an irritated "Eeeh, yes. For sure. Why?" as answer on my (obviously naive) question: "Have you travelled always with your NSU?"
For they it's absolutely self-evident to travel across the whole continent with a 30hp-car from 1964...
One time, when I've sat on a NSU-meeting in a Thurner RS (a handmade sport-coupe of fibreglass, based on a NSU TT).
And years later in a Daihatsu(?) Copen(?), when I've visited my Japanese friend. No joking, I couldn't leave and had to yell "Hiroshi, I'm stuck! Please pull me out!"
Disgusting.
And one time a friend an me have presented a scene, which was worth for a slapstick-show. Fortunately it happend i nthe pre-Youtube-times.
It was at our New Zealand-trip in 1998. We rented a car at "Rent-a-wreck" in Auckland. The have offered ca.12-13 old cars, used imports from Japan.
Because we left our luggage in the motel, we had no need for a bigger car, so we have chosen the smallest one. It was a 1986 Honda Jazz (Jazz was the name in Europe).
I (1.89 meter, 110 kg) could sit behind the steering wheel, but it was impossible to screw my legs between pedals an steering-wheel, absolute impossible! No way.
And my friend (1.90 meter, 155 kg) even couldn't use the passenger's seat. It must have been an incredible view, how we were crawling around in the car, but couldn't make it.
Then we went back in office and gave the keys back. We took a 1986 Honda Civic Shuttle, this was usable.
@Ddey65 and taxguy: the cars you are showing, aren't real micro-cars, just smaller cars. In the Europe of the 50ies, we had REAL microcars.
And hundreds of thousands of Europeans culd handle with them for many years.
When my parents were studying in the late 60ies, a friend of them had a Messerschmitt Kabinenroller. He lived in Aurich, a town in the farest Nortwest of Germany, close to the North Sea. His girl-friend lived in Graz, Southern Austria. And yes, he had visited her minimum one time per month. :shock:
In the NSU-fan-scene there is a well known old couple from the town of Hildesheim. They are owning -since 1964 in first hand- a turquoise NSU Prinz 4. The back window of the NSU is full with stickers from everywhere in Europe, even Romania, Iceland, Soviet Union and so on.
Proudly they've told me "Sure the stickers are only from countries,where we had been ourselves. We've travelled in every European country, to the Eastern Block-countries all before 1990".
I got big, uncomprehending eyes and an irritated "Eeeh, yes. For sure. Why?" as answer on my (obviously naive) question: "Have you travelled always with your NSU?"
For they it's absolutely self-evident to travel across the whole continent with a 30hp-car from 1964...