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Old 04-03-2008, 02:05 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Arminius -

Ha ha, the Messerschmitt lives!

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Many years ago one of our neighbours had a Messerschmitt Kabinroller.
Not one known for being happy to open his wallet he bought this thing from a car yard who got stuck with it as a trade and really just wanted to see it off the lot.

Needless to say he thought he found a bargain and was even more convinced when the local laws said he could drive it on a car licence thus saving the cost of another licence.

To hold the newly acquired pride and joy he scrounged a wooden crate from the local truck dealership and a very used tarpaulin from the same place.
He sat the crate next to the garage , covered it with the tarp and was duly satisfied with the arrangement as he had previously measured the Kabinroller
and found he had about two feet either side and about three feet at one end.

Perfect.

The big day finally arrived and he and his wife set off in a Morris of unknown parentage to bring home the new means of transport.

The wife returns and parks the Morris in the garage and heads into the house.
Some time later the wife still has not seen the husband but thinks he is talking to the neighbours about the new transport so is not concerned.

Mealtime arrives and the husband is nowhere in sight and the wife goes outside to check.

She find the husband stuck in the Kabinroller inside the wooden crate.

There was space around the thing but not above and the Kabinroller has a lift up plastic canopy. It did lift up but only about four inches.
Being motorcycle based it also had no reverse gear so he was well and truly stuck.

The wife came across the road to our house to get some help pushing this thing (and the embarrassed owner) back onto the driveway.

We would have pushed it out sooner but we were all laughing too hard to be of any help for about ten minutes.

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