Hollywood icon Cary Grant and a vintage BMW Isetta microcar
Small cars are back in style, thanks to gas prices that peaked at $4 per gallon last year, and the additional power, style and comfort manufacturers have been able to pack into new models like the Ford Fiesta and Audi A3 TDI clean diesel, named Green Car of the Year by the Detroit News. Perhaps these will be tomorrow’s classics. Yesterday’s icons are on display at a very small car show in Chicago, the Tres Petite Concours: An Exhibition of Micro & Minicars.
The car show takes over the 900 block of West Armitage Avenue, in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, the weekend of July 17 and 18, 2010. The show features microcars and minicars from the 1950s and 1960s including the iconic BMW Isetta, a three-wheel vehicle with a single door that opened in the front, in front of the driver and passenger.
Another car being featured is the Fiat Cinquecento, the inspiration for the Luigi character in the wonderful animated film Cars. And the Citroen Deux Chevaux, also known as the 2CV.
Fiat Cinquecento, inspiration for Luigi in "Cars" Movie
