Different, but why?

[Richard Cranium]

 

[Budnicks]

Fast & loud/Gas Monkey Gargage did one of those
shortened micro buses

sort of Clown car territory to me

 

[Ironbuilt]

Because it didn't ride horrible enough in it's stock form, so they figured they'd shorten the wheelbase and REALLY make it ride like crap!!

 

[DeltaV]

Maybe they wanted a larger version of this 1959 BMW Isetta?

 

[slimt]

Maybe they wanted a larger version of this 1959 BMW Isetta?
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I used to have one of those. It was yard art for quite sometime.

 

[Michael_]

Parking space is tight these days. That calls for drastic methods i guess.

 

[69 Sleeper Bee]

That’s the only way to make one pop wheelies with a VW engine.

 

[YY1]

Shortening vw's was REAL popular in the 70's and early 80's.

 

[moparmarks]

There is one here too along with a 57 Chevy.

 

[AR67GTX]

Shortening vw's was REAL popular in the 70's and early 80's.

I bet most of them you will find today are survivors of that craze back then - because today those things are too valuable to collectors to cut up.

 

[YY1]

Agree on that.

5 figures minimum.

 

[YY1]

My uncle had a 59 camper that had every option except windows in the roof and pop-up roof.

It even had a "kitchen sink".

 

[WileE]

How else could snow white cart her seven dwarfs around ?

 

[Triplegreen500]

GMG did one, I think their reasoning was the donor vehicle was MAJOR rusted-out / damaged in the middle, so they cut out the bad part and spliced what was left of the front, to what was left of the back.

 

[33 IMP]

That kinda looks like fun,......... but I would MUCH rather have the 62 savoy in the background (says the 62 savoy owner,lol).

 

[33 IMP]

Maybe they wanted a larger version of this 1959 BMW Isetta?
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Some people will do anything so they can say they drive a BMW.

 

[DeltaV]

Some people will do anything so they can say they drive a BMW.

And then complain about buying premium octane gas.

 

[Photon440]

There's been a shorty VW van up on a pedestal at a local dealer's lot around here for at least 30 years. It looks rather faded now.