We’ve all seen optimistic “project cars” listed for sale online—worthless, rundown husks whose owners nonetheless believe there’s worth hidden somewhere in between the rust and the missing components. That is why you need to study this eBay listing for a BMW Isetta “for parts or EZ* restoration!” in Evanston, Illinois. It will restore your chuckling faith in internet vehicle sellers.
If the photographs do not explain the asterisk disclaimer (“EZ = not easy”), the listing does. “This automobile was stored in a climate-controlled environment,” seller isetta300 writes. “It sat submerged in the Des Plaines River for that time and the nearby climate controlled almost everything.” Attributes? We’ve got a lot: “Ran when new! No useable components! Flat-Pack storage! The ideal present!” Oh, and the present storage solution—a garden cart with a sheet of plywood on top—comes with the sale. Bargain of the century.
What fate befell this poor, corroded, mainly theoretical Isetta? It’s challenging to say. The seller explains that it was found semi-submerged in the Des Plaines River, a 133-mile waterway that traverses southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. The crumpled shell was hauled up to shore by volunteers with the Illinois Water TrailKeepers cleanup crew.
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From there, the seller says “with no expense spared or spent, it was removed from the muck and transported in an enclosed trailer,” and the car now awaits “some fool other than me to say ‘I gotta have that.’ ” Clearly, some unavoidable harm occurred en route among the riverbank and the seller’s backyard.
Okay, so if you do bid on this project (presently hovering at $ 250), you won’t end up with a lot of something of value—”all you require is a frame, a body, door, engine, chaincase, and some other bits that can be bought with cash,” the seller assures us. But with 100 percent of the final selling price going to Donors Pick, a Disney-sponsored charity that funds books, classroom supplies, and field trips for teachers at needy schools, this is the uncommon basket-case project whose purchaser isn’t just throwing great income right after negative.
But we have to agree with the seller’s suggestions about getting an up-to-date tetanus shot ahead of collecting your microcar.
This story initially appeared on roadandtrack.com by way of bringatrailer.
Dire BMW Isetta: Taken to River, Dropped in Water for Decades, Pulled from Water, Now Humorously on eBay
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