1959 BMW Isetta 300

The first thought after looking around the garage has to be “why would a woman with four Ferraris have an Isetta?” In the profile of her 512 BBi (Vintage Roadcar, January 2017), Julie Ibrahim gave the answer to that question, “I was always a car girl.” And that she is. In addition to the Ferraris and the Isetta, there is an Alfa Romeo GTV and a recently added Lotus Elise.

Ibrahim became interested in micro cars when she saw the marketing information RM distributed about their auction of the entire collection of the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum. She was interested in 10 or 12 of the cars being offered, so she and her fiancé got in her plane and flew down to Madison, Georgia, a week early to visit the museum before it closed. “I had looked over almost all the cars that I wanted, even crawling under them and looking at the engine, but each time one would come up, it went for more than I was willing to pay. Toward the end of the auction, I strayed away from David (Scott, her fiancé) and started to get a little panicky that I would walk away without anything—every auctioneer’s dream.” Then the Isetta moved across the stage. She loved the color, and “it had me at the picnic basket.”