Way back in the day, both of my aunts on my mother’s side had Dodge Colts from the early 1980s, both RS models. In my grandfather’s eye, they were the perfect little car for a woman who just turned twenty-ish and was in college…small enough to be frugal, quick enough to be fun. He had a pretty solid view, but unfortunately, he didn’t notice that both of his daughters were a bit feral…by the time I was in kindergarten, both Colts had been totalled out, the circumstances very, very suspect. I thought they were cool for a small car…one was red with yellow striping, the other yellow with orange striping. After those two cars were removed from the phone poles they got wrapped around, I rarely ever saw one…not until Iraq, honestly. Like many knee-jerk reactions to the second gas crisis, once the fuel cheapened up and things got better, the tiny little tin-can hatchbacks were parked next to the good musclecars and 1970s sleds in the junkyard and were forgotten.
Here, we don’t quite know what happened that got this build going, but…well, here it is. Based off of one Dodge Colt and one Plymouth Champ (same car, the Mitsubishi Mirage), the two separate cars were joined at the B-pillar behind the doors. Both 1.6L four-bangers are intact, as are both Twin-Stick four-speed manual transmissions with the high/low splitter. The car can be driven from either end and if we’re being fair…it almost looks like something AMC could’ve put out about that point in time.
Some might think that this is just weird for weird’s sake, and they’re right, but from the photos, it’s not as bad as it should be if someone told you what they were looking at. We just wonder what would happen if you found a snowed-in parking lot, cranked the wheels and clutch-dumped both ends while in Reverse.
What stupid colt built this?
That’s odd, I’ve never seen a Colt with a vinyl roof before. I learned how to drive stick shift on a blue ’81 with the same twin stick arrangement that belonged to my mother. I probably shouldn’t buy this for her as a late Mother’s Day present.