Welcome friends to the Living Wisdom School's Vintage Car Restoration honors class: the complete rebuilding and restoration of a rare 1957 BMW Isetta 300 Cabriolet. The Team Isetta car, number 500269, was manufactured in Germany on March 18th 1957, and arrived in New York City on April 1st of the same year. The car was parked with a broken drive shaft coupling sometime between 1965 and 1968, and was never driven again, becoming a sort of mini-storage and long-term affordable housing to countless generations of mice. The original owner had filled in the sunroof, and covered the factory blue paint with a fire engine red. We purchased the car in Wyoming from the second owner, and, in the back of a borrowed pickup, brought it to our school in the Sierra foothills of Northern California. Team Isetta will be a two year project, with a revolving class of three to four students between the ages of thirteen and seventeen. Classes will meet once a week, as well as after school and on weekends. Three of our start-up crew were members of the original Team Sprite, a remarkable eighteen month restoration of a 1958 Austin Healey bugeye Sprite. If you're not familiar with that story, please take a moment and click on the little red car just to your left, we think you'll enjoy that website as well. As the Isetta progresses this site will expand, so please keep checking back. And please drop us an e-mail (use the 'Contact' button on the left), we love to hear from people who enjoy these wonderful little bubble-cars. We'll keep a page just for your comments, it was one of the unforeseen delights of the last project, click here for a sample page. So dive in, and let us know what you think. 

Bailey