Lo chiamavano la bara di Biancaneve, ma ne vendettero duecentomila

They called it Snow White's coffin, but they sold 200,000. In a Germany reduced to rubble in 1945, the Third Reich's greatest fighter aircraft manufacturer was banned from touching an airplane for 10 years. Willi Messerschmitt seemed finished, reduced to making sewing machines and prosthetics for veterans. Then a former Luftwaffe officer, Fritz Fend, knocked on his door with a crazy design: a three-wheeled egg with the dome of a fighter-bomber. This is the true story of the Kabinenroller KR200, of the war between three former aircraft manufacturers, of Renzo Rivolta's deep bond with Italy and his Isetta, built in Milan in 1953, of the BMW saved from the abyss by an Italian idea, and of the little tiger TG500 that dared to humiliate a Porsche. A story of poverty, genius, and redemption, where those who had lost their way still found a way to fly at 87 km/h on a single cylinder. Music: Eyes of Glory by Aakash Gandhi, When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Cooper Cannell. Photographs from archive.org and are in the public domain.