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Ralph Hough, 74, the deputy mayor of Oro-Medonte, Ontario, on his microcars, as told to A.J. Baime.
The week before I married my wife Wendy in 1962, we bought our first microcar, a Messerschmitt. We lived in England at the time and we went on our honeymoon in this car. Later we toured Europe in it, and in 1964 visited the Messerschmitt factory in Regensburg, Germany, right around the time the company stopped producing these…