If you Google "borgward isabella" you will find some better pix. That was
just the first link on the page. It's a smaller car than the factory
publicity photos would indicate, and the grill design may have changed
somewhat over its lifespan.
I have seen a few at local car meets, and when you said "boywood" that
seemed pretty obvious. It is definitely from the same "school" of styling as
the Karmann-Ghia.
The Nash-Healey was a good guess, too -- it is also in the same design genre
(early 50s Torino). But it doesn't have the "cab forward" look of the Ghia
or the Borgward. And of course it is a roadster, not a coupe.
There are a few other obscure European cars of the period that might meet
the description (I am thinking the Goggomobil TS400 Coupe, in particular),
but the name script would seem to be a deciding factor.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 6/17/05 10:31 AM, Paul T. Root at ptroot@iaces.com wrote:
> I bet that was it! The script name
> in the front fender looks like the
> same size as I saw.
>
> I don't remember it looking exactly
> like that, but it was early.
>
> boywood = borgward. Sure why not. :-)
>
> Max Heim wrote:
>> Was it a Borgward Isabella?
>>
>> <http://www.borgward-ig.de/e/eindex.htm>
>>
>> on 6/17/05 4:56 AM, Paul T. Root at ptroot@iaces.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>> driving in to work in the 'B this
>>> morning, I saw an interesting car
>>> that I couldn't identify.
>>>
>>> It had chrome bumpers, probably 60s,
>>> collector plates. It had kind of a
>>> VW Karman Ghia shape, but was front
>>> engine with a normal sized grill.
>>> The front fender had a script word
>>> on it, as I passed, I think it said
>>> 'boywood'. That's probably wrong but
>>> something like that.
>>>
>>> Anybody know what it was?
>>>
>>>
>>> I was in Sunnyvale on Wednesday. Couped
>>> up in a meeting all day, but still, didn't
>>> see any interesting cars while on the road.
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