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Showing posts with label Heinkel Kabine 200. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heinkel Kabine 200. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 November 2019

1958 Heinkel Kabine 200

This is one of the cars displayed at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.
It's a 1958 Heinkel Kabine 200 designed and produced by Heinkel Flugzeugwerke which had manufactured aircraft before and during WW2 but was prohibited from doing so after the war until the mid-1950s. After the war Heinkel built bicycles and motor scooters, and also these microcars - or bubblecars as they were also known. A paper affixed to the car says that it has a 200cc engine, and also gives the following information:

'Purchased from another club member already restored but not in a colour I liked. Many people will say they don't like this colour but I absolutely love it. I have done the inside to match with the help of a club member and friend who gave up his time to do this fantastic job and also another member and friend who I commissioned to recover the seats.

She is called Blossom.

Prior to her respray and new identity I drove her from Wem in Shropshire to Keynsham in Bath via Halesowen for the Bath Rally 153 miles each way.'