Craigslist Crapshoot

Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer. 
With computers in our pockets and spaceships almost making landings like they did in ’50s Sci-Fi, we are truly living in the future. Of course that’s not to say we don’t have plenty of future ahead, and last week we asked for what cars and trucks for sale you thought might make good investments for that future. We’ll revisit that in a sec, but first, this week’s quest.
The downside of buying a vehicle as an investment is that driving it can potentially negatively impact its value. This week let’s say the heck with that and go for cars and trucks that you may eventually lose money on, but that will be a blast on the way down. What I want is: the most horsepower you can find for under $5,000. Vroom, vroom, cheap, cheap.
As always, we want your finds to go down in infamy and not in the site’s spam filter. Follow any of the following advice and you’re crap will be known far and wide.

Wow, from the looks of things the cars that are presently undervalued are being held onto by their present owners, who are savvily awaiting their eventual market explosion. There were a few potential earners out there, and I’d like to award honorable mention to mrh1965 for nominating a Chevy Cavalier Z24 convertible for only $1,500. I think that’s a car that down the road will garner a following, and is cheap enough to snap up and garage until it does.
The car however that I think will eventually demonstrate the investment acumen – if not the taste – of its buyer, is this ’11 Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet, found by salguod. That’s a car so weird and so unappreciable expensive when new, that its present near-half asking makes this one a decent investment opportunity. Rare, oddball, and likely never to be duplicated, the Cross Cabriolet was Nissan’s middle finger to conformity, and I think it’ll be worth something in that future we’re always told will come. Congrats, salguod!