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The Micro Car and Scooter club origins came from Eric Vargas a keen Messerschmitt owner and university student in 1982.

Eric commenced ‘The Messerschmitt Owners Club’ (Australia) in April 1983. He unfortunately died June 1985 due to a motoring accident. Fred Diwell then presided over the club and news-letter production.

With the small number of Messerschmitts that had been marketed in Australia, around 230, a static membership could only be anticipated. Changing the name to Microcar Club was done in the early 1990’s allowing expansion and future growth. This move was very successful incorporating as it did all brands of Microcar that had been made locally and imported.

Membership growing exponentially introduced manufactures vehicles who had produced scooters and mopeds so another name change was undertaken to incorporate these brands becoming the Microcar & Scooter Club in June 2001. Incorporation to protect members and their assets came at a later date.

Collecting small cars or scooters can be addictive as many of our members will testify, there always appears room to squeeze another one in the shed or garage. Sometimes even the lounge room!

The club participated in many shows, displays and events right from the start, even holding mechanical and technical workshops. We have continued participate in events during the years mostly within the Sydney area and neighbouring districts. Interstate members also host informal get-togethers and attend events in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.

With the micro car and scooter boom in the fifties and sixties many of our vehicles have celebrated significant anniversaries such as Messerschmitts and Goggomobils 50th, then 60 years of Vespa and Lambretta to name a few.

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Text Box: Contact us PO Box 42 Berowra, Sydney. NSW, 2081. Australia O/s Phone 61 2 4565 0219 Local phone /fax 02 4565 0219 Email microcar@drive.to

Text Box: From the earliest days a news letter was produced, unfortunately not all have been archived. A more substantial news letter in magazine format commenced later. For example in issue 25 August 1996 there were articles from Practical Engineering dated May 1946 covering a “WeeP”. Other articles covering our type of micro cars, adverts for the Zeta Sports and a Maicoletta were featured including an Isetta article from (Aust) Modern Motor magazine; from the Geneva Auto Show of 1981 the story of the Ford Ghia prototype in Messerschmitt layout form. For-sales and forthcoming events were also listed. The current magazine number 82 has been published to cover our southern hemisphere winter June 2010. This including early issues are available by subscription, later issues we hope eventually have available online.

We are based in and around the Sydney basin of NSW with members in every state of Australia and Canberra the ACT.

Page compiled July 2010

Text Box: The club has a strong base membership of enthusiasts including some in New Zealand; encompassing a data base listing in excess of 350 vehicles of the 2, 3. & 4 wheeled variety and 500+ people who have or had an interest in these type of vehicles both here and overseas Over the years we have compiled registers covering Australian distributed and built Messerschmitts, Lightburn Zeta, Vespa 400 cars, Lloyd Goggomobils etc. with an extensive list covering other makes. Others in Qld have a strong affinity and interests in BMW Isettas they keep tabs on all the known ones. Another member D Nobbs runs the Australianl Goggomobil register.