RIP Isetta – By Clint Chron

In Anchorage, Alaska early ’58, my Dad sold Isetta 300s and 600s at Chron Motor Company. I think the 300 went for about $1300. It got about 60 mpg and Dad would advertise “never run out of gas”. He had one customer that actually took him up on that ad.  She ran out of gas after the first fill up and wanted to know why that happened.

I rode with my cousin Darla in a 300 in the Fur Rendezvous parade in 1958. My Dad was driving. In late 1958, my Aunt Delores took 5 of us kids in a 300 to the 4th Avenue Theater to see the movie “The Ten Commandments”.  Dad became the pastor of Eagle River Baptist Church in late 1958. Every Sunday, we would pile into an Isetta 600 and drive from Turnagain By the Sea to Eagle River. There were 3 adults and 4 kids in the 600 and it had no heater (it had a BMW 2 cylinder motorcycle engine). I can’t recall that any of us used seat belts. God was truly watching out for us – we never had any breakdowns.