Cascade Crew

Alphius · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:32 am Post subject: Why do we have back seats?

This guy wondered the same thing:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chevrolet-Camaro-85-CAMARO-SHORTENED_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6161QQitemZ130495013571

blue89 · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 8:51 am Post subject:

Does it look shorter at the rear bumper?

Alphius · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:39 am Post subject:

Rear bumper looks normal to me.

That car would be kinda cool to have just for the novelty factor but I'm sure his reserve is set way higher than it's actually worth... Laughing

turbo_jimi · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 10:02 am Post subject:

might be an optical illusion, but it does have kinda a 280Z look to it. interesting.

Alphius · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:01 am Post subject:

I was just noticing it looks like it was shortened somewhere in the middle most noticeably, but also shortened behind the rear wheels at the end of the hatch. That looks like a lot of work. Is a subframe car that's been so heavily modified technically "illegal" to drive on public roads or not?

SlackerTA · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:40 pm Post subject:

It was probably two diff wrecked cars that a body guy combined into one shortened camaro. It's "uniqueness" was prob just a result of not enough good sheet metal. There's def a lot of work into it for sure but the question remains... Why? Confused

Quasi-Traction · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:51 pm Post subject:

Somewhere (and I may have lost it) there's a picture of a 4 door 56 Chev that someone cut the frame and body sections out of the rear two doors and basically did the same thing with the IROC here. I know my ex took the picture at a car show we went to back in '07.

Dewey316 · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 1:00 pm Post subject:

Its pretty common in some circles. The Audi guys do that all the time to the original Quattro-Coupe, to make them into short wheel base SportQuattro's that Audi never brought to the US.

I also saw on TV that west coast customs made a 4 door range rover into a 2 door Rover concept car, it was pretty bad ass in the end. If done right some of the shortened cars turn out looking killer.

Here is a page with a quick blurb about the Audi's.

http://www.dialynx.co.uk/conversions1.htm

TurdGen1989 · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:52 pm Post subject:

IROCDave · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 6:32 pm Post subject:

" why do we have back seats" for aesthetics, plain and simple. That thing is ugly.

camarokid · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:37 pm Post subject:

WTF!!!!!

Whiskeychick · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:09 pm Post subject:

.... whew.

RSFreak · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject:

In some pics the door and rear quarter look shorter (look at the lower rear gfx) and in others it looks like the door is normal and only the rear is shorter. The angle shot looks like a normal 3rdgen. Confused