May none of us ever have an accident, but it´s nonetheless comforting to know: from all reports, the Borgward Isabella is one of the safest cars of its era in front-end collisions. As an example, Ray Harrison (founder of the Borgward Car Club of Austrlia Inc.) once rescued a motor from the wreck of an Isabella that was written off in a head-on collision. The driver and his wife and family had survived without injury.
Christian Steiger, in his book „Fräulein Wunder“ quotes a case of an Isabella owner whose car was destroyed in a head-on collision with a truck in 1965. The distraught owner ordered a replacement from Wolfgang Schätzle, a mechanic who built some 140 Isabellas from left-over or specially manufactured parts until 1967. All too early, the Isabella owner wrote, had he been separated from that wonderful vehicle – the odometer reading had been only 261 220 km. The significant thing was that, after a head-on collision with a truck, the owner´s biggest concern was to get a new Isabella.
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