Little vehicles that once moved Europe

This little car has come a long way.

Restored and repainted, it sits in a climate controlled, 7,620-square-meter American museum far from its origins on the ruined, rubble-strewn roads of postwar Germany.

The Messerschmitt KR-175 was originally built for a far-away era, when a population in dire need of transportation turned to engineering solutions to solve their problems.