My head is spinning around the fact that the Isetta was available in the United States of land yachts. Or did your family optain it another way?
I have no idea, but my grandpa had (...and still has) a bizarre knack for finding random things.
He had to improvise a lot of the parts for it from motorcycles and such, though, so I doubt it was imported on a very large scale at all. (There wasn't a BMW dealership in Wichita Falls at the time, that's for sure.)
ETA: I knew I'd think of more. The G-Body post made me smile 'cause I was brought home from the hospital in an Olds Cutlass. I'm not a big fan of 'em myself, but I can understand the appeal. My mom and her best friend both had 'em.
There was one of these badass bricks at my high school:
https://pic.armedcats.net/n/ni/ninjacoco/2010/02/28/volvohearse.jpg
Ohhhhh yes. It probably doesn't qualify as a "bad car" on here, but I always get a lot of odd looks whenever I admit that I kinda like Volvos. And this one--in black--looks like a hearse. I guess that's why a lot of people didn't like 'em, but mmmm. I could've pulled it off. There's just something sinister and appealing about the old blocky Volvo wagons. "Hi. My name is ninjacoco, and this is my hearse." Mwahahahahaaaaa.
(Also, I had a bit of a morbid streak in high school. That might explain a lot.)
And I like the newer ones, too. (Okay, not the newest one they've come out with that looks like a gottdanged Hyundai with a diagonal bar across the front grille, but you get the point.) Of the two "almost-hads" for my first car--a Volvo 850? sedan and a late '90s Mustang--I wanted the silly Volvo much, much more. To this, I got a lot of "eeew old people/turn signals left on/BALLARD." The Volvo just seemed a little more...subversive. For one, I had to ride around in the back of it 'til I got my license, and the 'Stang's dinky back seat would've been the ultimate uff da. Two, my dad is a hardcore American car guy, and making him get me a car made by "k
?ttbullar-eating ice monkeys"...yes please. And three, the Mustang seemed so...common. Not so much in WA, but seeing how I wanted to get back to Texas and pretty much any ol' redneck drives 'em here...yep.
Another odd like: the S-Type Jaaaaaaag.
It's so kitschy and "stuck in the past" that I like it. I rarely hear anything good about 'em, but...but......look at it. It's
adorable.
I also kind of like the BMW 1-series, even though they're prohibitively stupidly priced here. I just never, ever see 'em. 'k, I know there's good reason for that, but...awwwww it's just so tiny and cute and awwwwwwww.