So once Dave let us know he had taken the photos of the shorty Voyager and that he had tossed the photos into the Flickr pool of Tastelessly or Strangely Modified Vehicles, well, there went my afternoon. As with many other aspects of life, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and I certainly treasured some of the photos in the pool, like Hugo90’s photos of the Monte (2, 3) taken at the 2007 Portland, Oregon, Microcar and Minicar Meet. According to Hugo’s captions, the Monte was built in California in the 1960s from an American Ford rear end, a British Ford front and a Wisconsin one-cylinder engine.
And, of course, shorty vehicles abound in the pool, including this shorty Mini, also photographed by Hugo90, but in 1974 in Melbourne, advertising a place called Mini World.