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 year long project, with the class of five to six students between the ages of twelve and eighteen, meeting after school and over vacations. Three of our 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, take a moment and click on the little red car just to your left, I promise you'll be glad you did. As the Isetta progresses this site will expand, so please keep checking back. We'll soon add a page on the history of the Isetta automobile, a fascinating tale. 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.                                     

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