Curbside Classic Outtake: Get More Shorties Edition

by Paul Niedermeyer

Published: March 10th, 2010

curbside classic outtake get more shorties edition

All right, I have a thing about short cars. I haven’t spoken to a therapist about it yet. Perhaps its just a reaction against the obesity crisis in modern cars and trucks. But where did they all go? There were once so many of them. Well, I’m going to collect all of them: Have the Suzuki Samurai, X-90 and the shorty Kia Sportage. That leaves as few to still find:

Let’s see: Suzuki Sidekick, Geo Tracker, Daihatsu Rocky (in the can), and Isuzu Amigo. I already have a custom shorty VW (which included the shorty Lancer). I could use one of those crazy shortened VW buses to make the collection complete. Did I miss someone?

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BuzzDog on Mar 11, 2010

This isn't a factory-built shorty, but well into the 1980s there was a company in Simi Valley, CA that sold kits used to build a short-wheelbase roadster out of a 1975 - 1979 Cadillac Seville. It was called the "Milan," and the proportions were horrible. I recently saw one on eBay, and it made me sad to see a butchered Seville of that era. These are some of the few Cadillacs of the '70s that actually had halfway decent materials and build quality.

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- Highway27 on Mar 11, 2010
  
  Wow, BuzzDog, I went and looked that up, and you're right, absolutely horrible. This is the first thing I found on Google: http://crunch22.blogspot.com/2009/01/1976-1979-cadillac-seville-milan.html
  
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- Russycle on Mar 11, 2010
  
  I'd forgotten about those, C&D or MT did a write up on them back in the day. What a waste of a nice car....although at the time, nobody sold a convertible 4-seater in the US, so I guess they filled a niche.
  
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Bancho on Mar 11, 2010

The 2 door mitsubishi Montero was a good SWB vehicle.

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