Went to the Microcar Classic today, definitely an event worth checking out at least once. Just a lawn full of itty bitty cars. Some of my favs:
Citroen Ami 6. That roofline.
Fun little Daihatsu van. Right-hand drive and unregistered.
I forget what this was, but there was also a Citroen Mehari.
Corbin Sparrow. The front was packed with at least eight blue top Optimas that I could see, owner said there were thirteen total. Pic doesn't do justice, it was a really nice green (not blue).
This silly battle bus was parked on the street. It was a party bus on the inside.
Back inside the show was this decidedly not-micro motorhome. I have no idea why it was there, but it was still neat. The owner was a retired engineer - he built the entire thing from three originals, and even developed his own composite for the interior flooring.
The sink/counter was pneumatic and could extend an additional five feet into the cabin. Everything else was, naturally, slickly designed.
Part of what makes the Microcar Classic special is that the vehicle owners are encouraged to take guests on a ride in their cars. We timed it just right (and let a little kid and his grampa skip ahead of us) and got to take a spin around the park in a Nissan S-Cargo!
Thing was smooth as butter. It's a two-seat body-on-frame cargo van, roughly equivalent to our Grumman LLVs (the old USPS trucks). Only 8000 were produced over two years, making it VehiCROSS-rare. Based on the Nissan Sunny platform, which is a distant ancestor of the Frontier. So that was neat.
I'll be missing next weekend's Cars and Coffee, but there will be another at the end of August. I'm going to see if I can get the X into American Day later this month, too.