I'd guess it's either for a sign or a college art project. Too bad it's not about twice as wide. It could be a body for a recumbent bicycle if it was.
another example of a guy going all out on his custom only to realize too late that he'll never be able to cut the glass to fit.
Check this puppy out: http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/1638901497.html Done back in the 70's. What the hell were you people up to back then ??
There was a car that was shortened front to back in cowley, wyoming that sat in a field when I was growing up. It was shortened so severely that it didn't have any doors and the front and rear roof posts were welded to the fenders. I always wished I had taken a picture of it. It sat there for years!
I remember seeing that thing back in the day at the drag strip...it was a gasser, and it was called "ANOREXIC".
I remember seeing 4 or 5 55-57 chevys done that way through the years. A guy here in town has a 55 behind his barn that was shortened. It used to have a blade on the front to push snow at a gas station.
It's the stripped remains of the infamous Henway 'sandwich board-styled' concept car known as the "Anorexia". It was proposed as Henway Motor's entry into the burgening domestic economy and commuter car market - intended to beat the Ricer's at their own game - and designed to meet or even slightly exceed, the coming, ultra-strict 2011 Federal 'CAFE' fuel economy standards. Henway invested hundreds of millions of dollars designing it, but the project was abandoned, the lone prototype ordered scrapped and the entire engineering team who designed it, rounded up and executed, when it was discovered that the car's proposed standard Ricer-spec "fart can" exhaust tip was going to be wider than the actual body!!!! Mart3406 (Official Henway Motors Corporate Historian and Archivisr) =================================
Those of you with the idea to drop it on a motorcycle frame seem to be heading in the right general direction, but the trick would be to remove the top, have the seat up on top of the rear of the doors and the quarter panels, have the foot pegs outside the body, and the handlebars above the hood, with the tank mounted inside the top of the body in between what is normally the front portion of the doors and the rear of the cowl area, and ride it by straddling it rather than by trying to fit inside it. You'd have to keep the doors capable of opening so you could get in to service the engine.
That's a result of the conversion to the metric system by a guy who is accustom to working in feet and inches.
-------------------------- Or better yet, mount the car downrange of a .50 cal......and then blast it to oblivion, where it so rightfully belogs! Mart3406 ==============================
.....an Austin Mini that someone foolishly, idavertently parked between the famed, euphamistical (and obviously, very dangerous!) "immovable object and irresistible force"???? Mart3406 ============================
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