MICROCAR NEWS Online

1960 FIAT Multipla for sale $1500
located in Glen Carbon IL

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/2301337351.html
if the link does not work, the listing has expired

1939 FIAT Topolino convertible $18,000
located in or near Washington DC area

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/ctd/1895140936.html
if the link does not work, the listing has expired

1967 Siata Spring $8500
located in Mystic, CT

http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/1885815320.html
if the link does not work, the listing has expired

Results of Vintage Microcars to be auctioned in Monterey CA over the August 12-14 weekend this time by RUSSO & STEELE:
click pics to go to detailed listings for cars,
note prices are HAMMER PRICE.
ALL sales will have a flat rate 10% Buyer’s Premium added!

1958 BMW Isetta sold for $26,000

1954 BOND minicar MK C not sold? no record available

1966 Fiat 600 Abarth Berlina Corsa Replica sold for $7100

Only 2 Vintage Microcars at this year’s Barrett-Jackson Orange County Auction in California.
A BMW Isetta and a FIAT Mulipla
click pics to go to auction listing page for more info.
note: prices are HAMMER Price, 10%-12% Buyer’s premium was added.

Lot 89.1 1958 BMW Isetta $19,000

Lot 323.1 1959 FIAT Multipla $40,000

Fiat Topolino “B” $9500
new price!  $13,200!
located in NY

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/cto/1804225704.html
if the link does not work, the listing has expired

Fiat Topolino “A” – no price listed …booo
located in NY

http://newyork.craigslist.org/wch/cto/1770267429.html
if the link does not work, the listing has expired

1968 Fiat 850 Berlina for sale $6000
located in Salem OR

http://portland.craigslist.org/yam/cto/1753765453.html
if the link does not work, the listing has expired

1959 FIAT Abarth Double Bubble Zagato Coupe -$60,000
located Lyndeborough NH

http://nh.craigslist.org/cto/1726353597.html
if the link does not work, the listing has expired

1936 Fiat Topolino A – $10,000
located in San Francisco California area

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/1637914646.html

if the link does not work, the listing has expired

1959 Autobianchi Bianchina for sale $31,900
located in PA, but the ad is listed in GA (?)

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/1698136860.html
if the link does not work, the listing has expired

This 1936 FIAT Topolino just sold at Russo & Steele Scottsdale AZ 2010 auction for $14,000 (hammer price)

This was an ALL RESERVE auction (as opposed to Barrett-Jackson which is all NO Reserve) and the reserve was off somewhere around $10,000.

Where it is from I don’t know, where it is going, I don’t know.

The results from this auction were from watching the Live Feed, the official Russo & Steele Auction site does not yet have result from this auction.

from May issue of SKY magazine

If you were flying Delta in the last month and happened to browse through the May issue of “SKY” magazine in the seat pocket in front of you, you may have found this little trend-watch comparison chart on…Microcars!
Who would have thunk it? Microcars are trendy now and worth watching?

Listed from smallest to largest :

• Smart ForTwo 106″
• BMW Isetta 112″
• “new” Fiat 500 117″
• Toyota IQ 117.5″
• TATA Nano 122″
• BMW MINI 145″

yeah, many are just small cars, but apparently any modern small car is a microcar according to the media…at least they stuck an Isetta in there for reference. click the pic to see it larger if you want

Fiat 500 that is NOT for sale!

If you are trolling Craigslist looking for a cheap Microcar, don’t fall for this scammer trying to “sell” a Fiat 500 for $3000.

The ad has been placed in local Craigslist postings all over the country and most every one of them has been “flagged” for removal because it is SCAM.

I contacted the “seller” who lists their email as BISS.LAURA@Yahoo.com
(update: that email account has now been disabled)

I got a reply with a link to some more photos on PhotoBucket.com and the offer that the car would be placed on eBay on a “private” auction “Just for Me!”, where I could “safely” buy the car because eBay offers 5 days “protection” against fraud. Problem is, that eBay does not offer that and the eBay link that “Laura Biss” sent me was a scam site posing as eBay. The text of the scam email follows… (more…)

photo by Jim Janecek

Gould’s 13th Annual Microcar Minicar Classic Event was held July 10,11,12 2008 in Newton MA.

A reporter for The Boston Globe filed a report on the meet (but mostly about Smart Cars) you can read it HERE

more photos of the meet at The Bubbledrome