Description
Messerschmitt KR200 Dome top Bubble car
Original turquoise colour
Comprehensive recent service including new electronic ignition
Bare metal respray 2 years ago
Original UK car
Previous owners include the world famous Bruce Weiner collection and exclusive Sakibo Castle Carnegie club in Dornoch
This particular KR200 was purchased new in the UK and later crossed the Atlantic to the USA to join the world famous Bruce Weiner microcar collection in Madison Georgia.
While in America the car was professionally restored to the highest order with attention to detail accorded top priority, the engine being sent back to the England for rebuilding by a marque specialist.
Replacement original steel body panels were used wherever necessary, exterior fittings renewed or refurbished as required.
The car was refinished in the original colour and interior reupholstered in cream vinyl and snakeskin trim.
In 1997 the car was shipped back to the UK and entered in the Bruce Weiner microcar auction at Christie's London the car was purchased by Peter de Savary for his microcar collection at The prestigious Sakibo Castle Carnegie club in Dornoch and transported members when arriving in helicopter or private jet.
In July 2009 the car was offered for sale at Bonham Goodwood festival of speed auction.
Although no restoration work was needed in 2022 I decided it was time for a bare metal respray again all paint removed and found the body to be 100% rust free.
The car is running very well, recently fitted with electronic ignition, fully serviced only 10 miles ago and only used at local shows and trips to the supermarket. So im selling to make way for new toy.
Great help from the Messerschmitt Owners Club are a excellent source of spare parts new and used and very helpful tech guy. After World War Two, Messerschmitt were effectively forbidden from producing anything that was intended to go into the air and/ or offer a military capability to the heavily sanctioned German economy. The result is that everything the factory provided for a decade was kept ground-level - and none more so than the Fend Microcars.
Designed off the back of Fritz Fend's 'Invalid carriages', the Kabinenroller was a steadily developing titan of the new, quirky microcar market, with their tiny wheelbase and equally tiny weight offering an impressive prospect for leisure and sports as readily as it did a cheap, accessible and low-tax daily driver.
By 1956, Messerschmitt was returning to aerospace - and they had gotten rather unimpressed with their factory floors being dominated by little bubble cars. As a result, later cars such as this one, despite being known as the Messerschmidt colloquially, were actually built by Fahrzeug- und Maschinenbau GmbH, Regensburg.
This fine 1961 example is one of the second-generation KR200s, which offered a larger 191cc engine - offering effortless 60mph cruising. If you reversed the electric starter you could even do it backwards, which could well have been a candidate for one of the most terrifying experiences of mid-century European motoring!
With nimble performance and excellent road holding, this is one of the sportiest budget microcars of the era—and it is exceedingly rare to market.
