Isetta Heritage et al
Jon,
Mini is as close as you can get re: DNA.
Met a London Bobby one night at a Wimpy's (like a MacDonalds) who said I will show you London, and off we went 5 of us in his Mini. He drove like the proverbial wild man raced up to 10 Downing Street with high beams on the door and jammed on the brakes. I've seen the police on the sidewalks of Oxford steet with their Mini's when street would be blocked with traffic.
Austin used a 943 Cu. in. engine in Mini and Sprite. My camshaft froze in the block during a race. No one could give us any dimensional information to insert a bushing, so when at Sebring I asked Stirling Moss. He gave me the right person in London who in turn advised me the figures would be forthcoming from Japan. Interesting history lesson.
I am interestd in statistics and would enjoy reading production runs of the Isetta, 2002 and a few of the other older models that are so popular now.
Some years back at the airport in Hollywood , FL where I hangered my planes, we had a Pan Am Captain who had a 2002. He knew than what a good car it was and most of us ignorant folks with Porsches, Cads etc,.thought we had the best machine. He later took over first seat in a 747.
Dick
