Shortened Cars

When I was a kid, way back when the earths crust was cooling, some guys used to shorten cars. Here is picture of a 57 Chevy. I am not real hot on some of these but some kinda attract my attention. Maybe I am a few beers short of six pack. Anybody have anything like this on the HAMB, show us the pics and details if you've done one or have one.

 

Thats nasty!!

 

Funny thing, most of the shortened cars I've ever seen have been 57 Chevy 4doors and wagons, a few 55-56 Chevies, again 4doors and wagons, and the rest...VW buses!!

 

Looks like a six-pack someone took the middle cans out of and pushed back together.

 

There was a few 5,6,7 Chevys around here when I was a kid too. I remember a yellow 57 Chevy, it ended up in the Seattle area.
Theres still a 55 Chevy around here, it has a killer sbc in it with a 4gear. It pops the wheels all the time!

-Shiny

 

The cars are nasty. I remember seeing a wagon running around Abilene whan I was a kid.

 

There is a cool tri five Nomad that runs around down here that is shortened. I dotn have any pictures of it though... another Jersey dude might.

 

Some buddies and I did one out of a 55 chevy wagon when we were in high school because we were bored and the car was a parts car for a 55 post. It came out really nice and Jerry drove the thing and put it in shows all the time.

At one time it was popular to build these and the 56 Chevys had a corvette feel to them with the side trim on.

 

Heres one lol.

 

Most of them that I've seen were made by sectioning out the back doors of a four door to turn them into a super short 2 door. I've seen the VW buses shortened like that too. If a VW bus is super short, it does a wheelie every time you hit the gas.

They look pretty goofy, but goofball stuff like that is fun to see sometimes.

 

you forgot the model a 4doors that look like shit when they are shortened .....

 

It's funny, I remember seeing them as a kid also and I know where one is today rotting that a guy won't sell (and NO, I was not interested in buying it). If you dig them thats cool, but I hated them then and now.

 

I expect about 50 midget clowns to climb out at any second!!

 

oh!!! I shouln't have enlarged this pic I just barf/belched a little of my lunch back up

 

hideous....im all for doing something like that if it improves the proportions of the car,,,but that just ruins it completely,,,,,,

 

I kinda like the VW van but where are you supposed to bed the hippie chicks?

 

I think it would be cool to build a short gasser style 57. make it look like a Dave Deal cartoon.

 

that bus is fucking bad ass

 

clowns, shriners, chihuahuas... lot's of them.

 

Here's my T tudor sedan. Shortened 17". I don't have any good side view pics yet

 

thats kinda neat looking

 

It's kind of 60's Roth'ish looking. What else could you do with a T sedan?

 

I shortened a 55 and a 56 four door about 1970. My cousin drove another 55, my brother had a 55 wagon, and a buddy had a 56 ford. Some others that we ran into were 2 door posts that you had to climb over the side to enter. Chevys had a straight frame that made them easier for the backyarder to shorten than fords. My nephew did a 55 chev about four years ago for nostalgia's sake. If I ever get another 56 four door for $50 look out!! They were by far more fun than any vehicle I have ever driven.

 

I saw a '57 Chrysler done that way. If I'd seen it in person I would have popped him in the mouth.

 

My little shortie.

 

Terrible!

 

I'm digg'n both of those vans!