What is the smallest car you have owned?

[toolmanmike]

I forgot about my other Isuzu.

 

[themechanic]

I forgot about my other Isuzu.

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The matching jacket is a riot.

 

[AR67GTX]

The most cramped was a 72 Datsun pickup. At a little over 6’2” in my youth, my head would hit the roof on ever good sized bump. But it was a good little run-a-bout and I moved in it a couple times back then.

Smallest true car was my 77 Honda Accord. It was actually pretty comfortable, good to travel in, got great mileage, kept the miles off my muscle car and kept it out of the weather, reliable, and was good in snow.

 

[3sloppydogs]

This pos
I hated it, dual side draft carb. Always out of synch. Head gasket finally let loose I traded it on a 79 monza
Better but not by much. But when you ain't got no cash it beats rubber soles.

 

[kiwigtx]

I have had a few here ...the Hillman Imp I had for about six months was an oil-burner....but lots of fun. Used to jump that thing over sand dunes at a local beach back in the '80's when nobody worried that much, and Karen's hadn't been invented yet.

I also had a '64 Renault Dauphine for a while..... not a bad vehicle for work as a daily driver till it broke down bad. Spun it out on a big roundabout one morning - stopped traffic quickly... I had tried to do that on purpose, but not to that degree. Roundabout is no longer there, but it was fun for the many years I drove on it.

My smallest with a driver's licence was a Fiat Bambina - Fiat 500, 2-cylinder rattler with a sun-roof that peeled right open. That car was my daily for a few months, and I used to carpool in the Bambina with a guy who worked on the same site as me back in '89. It was a laugh to drive.....I used to drive along the motorway with my head out the sun roof. My eyeline was about the actual roofline, so it was either duck down or sit up a little extra.
That was the car that caught fire on the way to work one morning in peak traffic - I had wrapped an old tee shirt around the plug wires and they were shorting a bit - causing loss of one or two cylinders (not good for a 2-cyl engine). Anyway, I also had a small fuel leak......nek minute were trailing smoke and then flames. So I pulled in the first driveway I could with three lanes of traffic......just happened to be a Gas Station. The attendant came out yelling at me to get that bloody thing out of the forecourt. LOL I grabbed some water and put the fire out. Found the fuel leak, and when it had dried and the battery was almost exhausted, the little rattler fired up and we were off again.

No pictures unfortunately....it would have been nice, but the car wasn't worth taking glamour shots of back then.

My smallest car however was when I was about 4 years old. An Austin convertible.

Picture is with my 'little' brother, and that was the farm we lived on down in Otaki where I quit smoking a year earlier. True story.

 

[T2R9]

Had to be either the 98 Stratus I bought new, or the 2015 Dart the wife had. Can't think of anything smaller. The Stratus was a great car, 2.4 got 200k out of it.

 

[SteveSS]

When I moved the 69 Charger and put the 66 Vette in the garage I was shocked in the size difference. Smallest, probaby a 280Z.

 

[RR Fan Dan]

Suzuki Samari
Datsun 280z
Chevy Luv

 

[Cranky]

76 Dodge Colt....it was MUCH better than the 71 VW Stooopid Beetle that I had in 73. The Beetle was a pile compared to the Colt. The Colt never broke down and the VW....like I said, was a pile! The Colt came into my life in my first divorce but it wasn't for very long........

 

[toolmanmike]

I have had a few here ...the Hillman Imp I had for about six months was an oil-burner....but lots of fun. Used to jump that thing over sand dunes at a local beach back in the '80's when nobody worried that much, and Karen's hadn't been invented yet.

I also had a '64 Renault Dauphine for a while..... not a bad vehicle for work as a daily driver till it broke down bad. Spun it out on a big roundabout one morning - stopped traffic quickly... I had tried to do that on purpose, but not to that degree. Roundabout is no longer there, but it was fun for the many years I drove on it.

My smallest with a driver's licence was a Fiat Bambina - Fiat 500, 2-cylinder rattler with a sun-roof that peeled right open. That car was my daily for a few months, and I used to carpool in the Bambina with a guy who worked on the same site as me back in '89. It was a laugh to drive.....I used to drive along the motorway with my head out the sun roof. My eyeline was about the actual roofline, so it was either duck down or sit up a little extra.
That was the car that caught fire on the way to work one morning in peak traffic - I had wrapped an old tee shirt around the plug wires and they were shorting a bit - causing loss of one or two cylinders (not good for a 2-cyl engine). Anyway, I also had a small fuel leak......nek minute were trailing smoke and then flames. So I pulled in the first driveway I could with three lanes of traffic......just happened to be a Gas Station. The attendant came out yelling at me to get that bloody thing out of the forecourt. LOL I grabbed some water and put the fire out. Found the fuel leak, and when it had dried and the battery was almost exhausted, the little rattler fired up and we were off again.

No pictures unfortunately....it would have been nice, but the car wasn't worth taking glamour shots of back then.

My smallest car however was when I was about 4 years old. An Austin convertible.

Picture is with my 'little' brother, and that was the farm we lived on down in Otaki where I quit smoking a year earlier. True story. View attachment 1843145

Nice ride. Oh ya, I forgot this one. It was trimmed out like a 57 Chevy with out the fins. Photo was 1958

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[beanhead]

I'd have to say the '02 Hyundai 2-door I had for a few years. It was like driving around in a go-kart....merging onto the freeways here was always a bit of a 'pucker moment'. I'll tell ya what though, it was a snappy little thing with the manual 5-speed and I even jumped a trench on jobsite with it once and it just kept on going....small but mighty!

 

[JackR]

7x AMC gremlin X with Levi’s seats.

 

[Ron H]

Smallest I drove were not by personal selection, they were company rides before the company provided mid-size: Olds Firenza (anyone remember them?) and then a Pontiac Sunbird. 4-bangers, though the 2nd Sunbird I was able to order was the sport version with the six. Gotta say it was a fun ride, could smoke the tires (yeah the fronts) and zip around. Given that the K-car was among the company selection, glad I didn’t order one. I drove one a co-worker had ordered and wow, total POS. There was work route I drove with a large hill, floored the K to maintain the speed limit going up the hill and it couldn’t handle it; dropped 10-mph by the time I got to the crest.

 

[PROSTOCKTOM]

I bought the following small cars new:

1984 Chevy Chevette 2-door with a 5-spd.

1987 Honda CRX Si

2012 Fiat 500 Sport

I've always had a small car in the fleet for economical utility.

Tom

 

[polywideblock]

Holden Torana (LJ) GTR-XU1

 

[RTDaddy]

78 Mercury Bobcat. Mercury's version of the Pinto. It at least kept the miles down and weather off of the 70 Charger R/T.

 

[BigFlo]

1984 Toyota Supra. Awesome car.
Actually wish I kept it. Bought it from my father-in-law. Sold it with 205k miles and still going strong.

 

[Don selleck]

probably a 78 fiesta, or the 71 bug I had it was cheap and lived out on the back roads near Devils lake, lots of 4x4 trails under was rusted out pretty good brazed a 74 catalina hood und the floor pan rebuilt the motor bigger jugs and a weber 2 barrell with a low duration cam, had chevy rim adapters with some all season radials, 2nd gear and varying the throttle would slide you across snow without the tires touching the ground, what a pos it was but had a great time

 

[Dave6T4]

1970 Gremlin; good little car. I was a bit smaller back then.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

VW bug, a Pinto, a fiesta, and a Mercury Lynx