And now, for the funny story :
eBay Insanity: Certifiably Goggomobil Edition
By Alex Kierstein, on April 26th, 2011
Orange and angular; tiny and likely very, very slow; associated with two obscure brands and one very well-known one. It’s trippier than ‘Tussin and leaves a trail of blue smoke. VW Thing owners will puff out their chests and pat the fenders, proud that theirs is no longer the ugliest cheapo German car on the block. As they say in Bavaria, “bilden Sie meine eine BMW-Lloyd-Goggomobil jagdwagen!”
As stated in the eBay ad, BMW did indeed buy Glas and thus their small-car lines as well, which included the Lloyd, Hansa, Borgward, and Goliath intellectual property. Apparently the newest BMW employees at the Glas plant had a sense of humor, affixing a custom fiberglass jagdwagen (hunting car) body of sorts to a spare Goggomobil chassis, and then gluing a BMW roundel to the comical nose. I don’t think BMW was too upset about it, because they were too busy assembling coffins for the Glas brands to notice a funny little one-off most likely used as a factory parts-getter (not unlike MG’s Old Speckled Hen, actually, except much much uglier).
Seeing as how it doesn’t look significantly different than a Taylor-Dunn factory cart, I’m not sure this is the sort of wild attention-attracting thing that’s “perfect to advertise your small business!” with, as pretty much every eBay seller of some stupid and impractical vehicle will optimistically bleat. But if you love microcars, Goggomobils in particular, seek a physician’s help immediately after bidding on this.
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