In the region of £35,000 spent on a comprehensive restoration.

Registration No: T.B.A Chassis No: 5707 MOT: Exempt

Upgraded to KR201 Roadster specification
UK-supplied example, sold via agents 'Humming Bird Motorcycles' of St Albans
Full mechanical and cosmetic restoration

Few post-war vehicles capture the spirit of ingenuity and austerity-era innovation quite like Messerschmitt’s iconic Kabinenroller.

Instantly recognisable and eternally evocative, the diminutive bubble car stands today as one of the most celebrated microcars ever produced.

Denied the manufacture of aircraft in the aftermath of the Second World War, Messerschmitt redirected its formidable engineering expertise toward compact personal transport.

Introduced in 1953 as the ‘Fend’—named after co-designer Fritz Fend—the model soon adopted the Messerschmitt name, coinciding with the adoption of a more potent 174cc Fichtel & Sachs single-cylinder two-stroke engine in place of the earlier 148cc unit.

Mounted at the rea...