We’ve got quite a thing for strippers here at CC, so needless to say, this one stopped my dead in my tracks. When’s the last time you saw a Geo Metro Minimalist? I thought so. But if there’s one to be found, Eugene is the place.
Under the hood; I mean where the hood would be in a regular Metro, the engine and related parts are all there. So no scrimping on the important stuff; all three cylinders are accounted for.
In the interior; well, that isn’t quite the right word,is it? In the front seating area, things have definitely been slimmed down some, but at least there’s not just some lawn chairs. Who needs an instrument panel anyway? When the wind is blowing straight into your face, it’s pretty easy to tell how fast one is going.
And ventilation is certainly not an issue.
Rear seating is a bit more spartan.
Surprisingly, there’s a spare. Well, this car is all about functionality over comforts, and a spare can come in mighty handy. No jack though, but this Metro is so light, it’s no problem for a couple of folks to lift it up while a wheel is changed.
It makes a handy little runabout pickup, of sorts. Maybe a piece of plywood in back would give it a better floor for loading.
Here it is, in profile. And one thing is for sure: this Metro gets spectacular mileage. The EPA rated the minimalist version at 93 mpg.
That’s even better than the famous 84 mpg VW Beetle.
Here that would be a river thrash car, when they eventually stop and are abandonned the council remove them, next stop the scrapyard. Make and model dont seem to matter and wanted river car ads are all over local buy/sell FB pages
While this looks neat and could be amusing to drive for a bit I just do not get it, but an artist does not have to justify their work.
Maybe they just got tired of looking at this:
Not sure that I would want my neighbor or tenant to have this parked in the front yard. Also, don’t think it would pass state inspection nor could you get insurance. Best to be left as a farm buggy.
While Oregon has no safety inspections the lack of turn signals would get you in trouble probably.
tenant is your right as a landowner to rules against this. now your neighbor? dont like it? too fuckin bad… build a fence if it bothers you so much…
I’m sure the neighboor in the last picture sure wishes the fence in the background was all the way to the street to hide the Metro. Better yet, we’ll park it on the street in front of your house!!????
The perfect car to take your sweetie to the local baked bean supper in. The full value of it becomes most obvious on the ride home.
I’d mount a wind gauge on the cowl for a speedometer!
Not as minimalist as it could be – it’s clearly a four-door. Well, four-hole. Or at least four holes before the B-pillars were cut off, but still the longer wheelbase.
Agreed. Plus those seats look WAY too luxurious. Bolt in a couple of the bed chairs from an old BRAT and then we’re talking.
Would make a nice summer beach car. Obviously wouldn’t want to be in it on a day like today.
Guys, guys, guys – you have it all wrong. Remember the Myers-Manx VW beach bugs? This is the perfect beach cruising car for the ’20s. I see a future in divesting registered beaters of all unnecessary parts for gas and beer money, and selling them as beach utility vehicles (BUV). They’re easily abandoned if a rogue wave hits the car, the chassis is so light that cancerous rust will not affect the structure and resale may actually increase due to the novelty.
I Wonder What Kind Of MPG It Can Achieve?
Probably too short to mount on hay bales and stick Santa in…
Actually the driver used it to box in the guy in the Dodge Stratus, who has been sneaking over to visit his girlfriend. Didn’t want to risk his BMW. 🙂
A refugee from Dave’s Farm at Sky Hill?
Neat runabout, but it’ll eventually bend in half without those B-pillars.
Once again I’ll sing the praises of Eugene’s rust free cars.
In Ontario you would never be able to do this. First of all you’d never be able to find an old Geo Metro. Second, all the fasteners would be rusted in so it would be a complete pain to disassemble, and lastly once you got it looking like this it would collapse under it’s own weight because of floor rust, the carpet would have been holding it together.
What a find, I don’t want to own it but I would like to drive it around the block.
Talking about strippers usually generates more clicks. Ha!
The owner of this Metro Minimalist wouldn’t happen to be the same owner as the Toyota Lo-Lux Minimalist pickup? Looks like the same “engineer” built it.
And I thought the Citroen 2CV was a minimalist car.
pizza beater?
You can park it in front of my house as long as it doesn’t block my driveway and it isn’t on my property. I have no say on what happens off my property and don’t have any right to tell others what they can do on theirs.