"This beautifully bizarre and unique creation is the brainchild of Hungarian bike builder and Wild West theme park owner Henrik Toth.
The design is based on a Second world war Messerschmitt ME109 fighter plane and entirely hand built by Henrik.
The sidecar X- or fuselage -X is attached to a Yamaha Wild Star cruiser, disappointingly the propeller on the chair isn't powered.
Toth's other T-motor Sidecars and his wild west village just outside of Budapest can be seen on his website"
via Motorcycle News
Motorcycle News doesn't seem to do much homework. The sidecar has the styling of the Grumman F4F Wildcat. And the fact that it has US airforce logo's, Indian motorcycle style fenders, a ww2 Harley army bike front look and an American jerry can on the side strongly hints that this isn't based on a Messerschumitt. Also, I hear Hungarians hate Germans.
Moreover, there was no Messerschmitt Me 109. It's proper designation is the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (and it's many variants, further denoted by another letter and number, both after the '109') to be anal.
The guy, Henrik Toth's website is here, by the way.
I would like to see a side car based on a Japanese fighter plane with a Kawasaki bike and Yoshimura parts. Kawasaki in fact built a fighter Ki-61 Hien ("Swallow") and Pop Yoshimura was a mechanic for fighter planes during WW2.
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