Foxer Posted April 17, 2015 Posted April 17, 2015 Like this '60 ElCo... The best looking of the bunch ... and I'd drive that one .. never want to drive any of the others ... eeeek!
Rob Hall Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) but, how do they do it ? wonder how they drive too? Using tools like saws or cutting torches probably. The probably ride rough with such short wheelbases. Edited May 6, 2015 by Rob Hall
Tom Geiger Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 There's something about those shortys... If you built that one you DESERVE TO SMACK YOUR HEAD! Each and every time! I had a buddy who put those silly scissor wing doors on his PT Cruiser. He hit his head often and I told him he deserved it!
Greg Wann Posted May 12, 2015 Posted May 12, 2015 There is a short VW bug around here. It has a key on the back that turns in a counterclockwise direction as it goes down the road and the guy crawls in and out of a hatch opening in the roof.
Skip Posted May 14, 2015 Posted May 14, 2015 what a waste of VolkswagensBack when those VW's were probably sectioned, Volkswagons were a dime a dozen, nothing special for the most part! You can't apply today's standards of coolness to what people did to cars in the past. Those of us who were actually seen driving a "Chick Car" endured a whole lot of cr@p flipped our way for driving something that didn't drain the wallet dry during the week so we could drive our "Real Car"on the weekend. I had a '57 Oval Window first running an 1835 and later a "Grenade" 2180 cc engine. The 48 IDA Webbers cost more than the whole car did (paid a princely sum of $100 for a running, driving 36 hp '57 Oval Window!) right around $600 for carbs alone. Still running a hot rodded Bug burned a lot less Supreme Gasoline than did my '65 GTO with a Radical SD 421. The only real downfall of the Bug Was it ate transaxles like they were going out of style! A few hours long distance with Gene Berg, in Southern California, solved most of the gear breakage issues, after that it just broke the cases! (I worked in the Service Department of a VW Dealership at the time so I got a deal on parts. When the Rabbits came out, if they didn't have to order it I usually didn't have to pay too much for anything.) The Oval Window was respectfully quick, but I still took a lot of Cr@p for driving it! I did some work on a friend's '55 Stubby Wagon, it actually drove and handled fairly well, even with a slightly warmed over 327 it wanted to lift the front end off the ground, when the 327 was "built" it would carry the front wheels through first and second gears. That thing was a blast to drive. Tri-Five Stubbys came about pretty much for one reason. No One, and I repeat, Absolutely No One would dare be seen driving a four door anything!! The four-door sedans and wagons went for about a third of the price of the more popular Two-Doors, Hard top, Posts or if you could find one Wagon. For the most part around the late '60's to mid 70's you would see more Stubby Tri-Five Chevys than anything else, maybe an occasional Chevy II wagons, Corvair Convertible and a small number of early VW vans, with the exception of the Corvair and VW's most started out as four doors. Build quality on all of these shortened rides ranged from absolutely crude to really well finished bodywork and painted really nicely. The Stubby '57 looks like it's running a straight axle, the nose high attitude was the "Hot Set Up" for drag racing in the early '60's. A high front end helped with weight transfer, with A/GS on the side is probably why it's running the extra altitude. That car wouldn't have been allowed to run in any of the Gas Classes, it would have to have ran in the Altered Classes.
Bumblebi Posted June 4, 2015 Posted June 4, 2015 (edited) There was a Swedish guy who made a shorty out of a Saab 99 in the 90's, and as you can see, he also made a limo and a speedboat out of SAAB 99's. The shorty and the limo are the shortest and longest Saab's ever Edited June 4, 2015 by Bumblebi
Belugawrx Posted June 6, 2015 Posted June 6, 2015 Like this '60 ElCo... Now THAT somehow speaks to me
Jantrix Posted June 10, 2015 Posted June 10, 2015 Now THAT somehow speaks to me Mee too. I would drive the wheels off that and grin at every hater that sneered at me.
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