This IS supposed to be fun, right? We are into this whole car thing to have fun and smile and enjoy ourselves, at least that’s what we remember anyway. That being said, fun is the reason we had to share this restyled Crosley hot shot sports car with you. Yes it does kind of look like something Homer Simpson would drive but at the same time it represents a hilariously irreverent attitude that Crosley owners had back in the day. Heck, you had to be a little off center to even want one of the literally minuscule cars in the first place so why not dress the thing up to look like one of the high finned boulevard cruisers that most American car buyers were lusting over!
Mechanically stock, the thing has the little 44ci Crosley engine, a manual transmission, and as the seller says, the handling characteristics of a go-kart…likely a slow go kart but one of those nonetheless. This was clearly a kit that someone installed and not just a homespun design. The front end tells us that. There’s some definite manufacturing prowess in making an entirely new nose, windshield, fins, and functional continental kit as well.
The body work is not laster straight and the car has its battle scars from 50+ years of use, but it is the only one we have ever seen and likely one of the only ones on Earth. Not much bigger than a gold kart this little runner would be a hilarious thing to cruise around your town in or enjoy at the occasional cruise night.
It is small, it is slow, and it is strange. It is also BangShifty as hell.
eBay: This restyled Crosley Hot Shot is hilarious and fun – needs a turbo!
Great if your idea of fun is driving around in something that either looks like a child’s drawing of a car or something outside a country bar with flowers growing in it. but look on the bright side – at least you could throw it into a crusher!
I don’t think anyone would be in a bad mood driving this pile.
Yep – it may be cheesy, slow, unreliable, and as practical for a daily driver as a Shriner parade car, but looks like you’d get a big stupid grin driving it.
His ad is priceless. The 1 percenters, ha. Good LS candidate.