I couldn't find an image of a Dodge Durango done up like this.
Posted on 03/10/2016 11:55:29 AM PST by nascarnation
Let’s face it: when it comes to modern cars, no model is as maligned as the diminutive two-seat Smart Fortwo. Well, maybe the Mitsubishi Mirage.
Measuring just 8-feet-10-inches in length, the rear-engined Smart looks less like a car than a rolling phone booth, or perhaps the bubble that would take Patrick McGoohan back to The Village in the TV show “The Prisoner.”
Jokes and instances of car-tipping aside, the Smart harbors a secret ability that sets it apart from its larger peers — and it took an Ontario mechanic to find it.
A regular day will find Tod Anderson working on mainly European imports at Autobahn Tuning Inc. in a town just south of the Canadian capital of Ottawa. However, when free time allowed, Anderson spent the early part of this winter turning a 2006 Smart Fortwo into a snow-eating beast.
As it turns out, with a little elbow grease and imagination, you can convert a Fortwo into a snowmobile fairly easily at a cost of $7,000 Canadian (roughly $5,300 U.S.), plus the cost of the car itself.
“(The car) was something I’ve had my hands on for about six months,” said Anderson, who decided to convert it last November.
“It looked like something interesting to do. I’ve got buddies who put tracks on their trucks, and because the Smart is rear-engined and rear-wheel drive it seemed natural to try. There’s not many cars you can put tracks on, except a few Ferraris and Porsches.”
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I see one of these roller skates a couple of times a week on my commute. It's on a major interstate, 70-75 (or more) mph.
Car spends more time off the ground than on it, especially when 18 wheelers start blowing it around. I've resigned myself to seeing it mashed like a fly in a flyswatter, one day.
All you FR car geeks are so far behind as well as in the dark. You should see these little buggers run with a carbon fiber body and a 300 hp turbocharged engine, a thing to behold actually!!!
The first VW I ever saw (in the school parking lot) was called a "pregnant roller skate" by one of our teachers.
That little thing does not deserve any serious attention. I feel sorry for the people who drive them.
I had a smart car. Kept it in the trunk of my normal ride. Used it primarily as a way to get around the mall.
Great thinking!
You know, if every Democrat had a ‘smart car’ they’d have to walk to the polls...
It is a racing series in europe and is one of the most entertaining series on the planet.
People are not forced to drive midget cars, do not feel sorry for their choice.
“People are not forced to drive midget cars”
No, they are goaded into it by their fellow feeble minded liberals.
Paula Shanklin had a great little ditty: “In a Yugo”.
Available as an all-electric, or as the more common 3-cyl.
Gas version actually gets worse mpg than Prius or Fit or some other small cars!
Oh boy, how foolish you are when it comes to the human being and their automobiles.
That is just another reason that I feel sorry on their behalf, kind of like I feel for pug owners.
Funny you should say that. I currently have to do door-to-door sales for a ‘job’ thanks to the Obamaconomy, and I’ve noticed that as a general rule people with small, noisy, ugly dog breeds like pugs or chihuahuas are especially insecure and rude.
Crappy little dogs and nasty owners do seem to come in matched sets.
We don’t get snow here but I see these little cars zipping around on the freeways. If one of them gets smashed how would you even get the drivers body out? Could just bury car and all I guess.
I couldn't find an image of a Dodge Durango done up like this.
I call such dogs ‘footballs’ or ‘soccer balls’...three guesses why! ;-}
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