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  • Craigslist Crapshoot

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  Uber and Lyft are pretty much putting the traditional taxi business out of business. They are the boldest examples of the new “Gig-Economy” that let’s people work when they want to, and businesses…

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  Is $1,500 a lot of money to you? I know it is to me, but it generally won’t get you all that much that’s interesting in the used car market. Still, that’s just what we…

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  You know, there’s been so many global conflicts of late that the previously commonly understood term “Pre-War” could presently be taken as meaning something from 1998. We were looking for cars embracing the traditional…

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  The rotary engine may not have ever caught on the way Felix Wankel had hoped, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its fans keeping the flame alive and the wankels a-wankelin.’ We’ll…

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  Being an American, I always got the giggles when on Top Gear they would refer to a car with a Z in its name as a Zed, like in 240-ZED. BMW obviously gave the show…

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  Last week we went looking for the best armored cars we could find. That of course included anything that would stop a bullet, but excluded everything that was slathered in ArmorAll. We’ll get to the top mobile…

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  Last week we looked for cars with the most outrageously bordello-like interiors. I was surprised how many of you knew, spot-on, what a cat house interior looked like, but that was only a momentary distraction…

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  Last week’s search target was the last of any series that was rear-wheel drive that later went FWD. Yes, that’s a particularly convoluted and specific request, but then, I’m high maintenance. We’ll see what you all…

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  Last week we went looking for modded Miatas that weren’t half bad. The ad that took home the prize however was for two that were. More about that in a minute, but first…

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    Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.  You might not want to pony up for any of the pony cars found last week. We were looking for examples from the form’s nadir, the late ’70s and early ’80s, and there…

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