Craigslist Crapshoot

By Robert Emslie Apr 15, 2015

The World’s Worst Car Is For Sale On Craigslist
Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer. 
Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer, go! We all like to go fast, and most of us like to win. Trying to do so can set you back a pretty penny, over and over and over again, as even at LeMons level, racing is an expensive hobby. We’ll see if it can be worth it just after the jump, but right now we have another quest for you.
You know that cars mostly have four wheels (some trucks have six) while motorcycles generally have two. Add a sidecar to a bike however and the total tire count is three, and that means that any trike for the road requires just a motorcycle license. Let’s find all those that we can, let’s see what trikes (and bikes with sidecars) we can find for sale, craptacular and otherwise.
As always, we want your finds to go down in infamy and not in the site’s spam filter. Since we’ve changed commenting systems, you may need to update your commenter account. Make sure you have a Disqus account – they’re free and easy to get – and then comment away.

Got that? Good, now lets see what ad won last week’s poll position.


The race cars found last week fell into two distinct categories, LeMons contenders, and real-deal racers. Seemingly straddling that line – until you read the details – is this tube frame Vega found by by The Rusty Hub. If vintage racing is your bag, then this Cosworth-powered all-out racer has a lot to offer. If instead you wanted something that could go toe to toe in SCCA’s current Grand Touring classes, then this might be a cheap seat entry. Either way, it won last week. Congrats to The Rusty Hub, and thanks to you all for your most excellent contributions.
SCCA GT3 - GT2 - GTLite Road Race Car

62 thoughts on “Craigslist Crapshoot”
      1. Looks like the Asian equivalent of a Chevy Suburban. I know in Taiwan the law says that only 3 or 4 people max can ride on one scooter/motorcycle. That law is often ignored.

      2. The scary part is I have the next level up bike trailer to pull my kids with my city bicycle. It says on a sticker “Not intended for use at speeds over 10 MPH.”
        I’ve hit 24.
        I hope this guy is only using this as a trunk.

    1. Cool little bikes. The front suspension is actually designed to lean into corners, unlike most moto-trikes. Safe and stable, unlike that Chinese 150cc deathtrap above.

    1. In the quote it is stated “craptacular and otherwise” – this is most definite craptacular.

    1. Love the fully optioned out “socialism carrier of Soviet-German friendship” on the back of it.

    1. There’s more weight behind the rear axle than in front of it? I’m sure that’s a good idea!
      (The Corvairs themselves had a 38% / 62% F/R weight distribution)…

    1. Back in the day, my uncle owned the waterborne cousin of this little beastie, the Wetbike. He would have been seen terrorizing holidaymakers on Lake Bemidji throughout the 80s. Alcohol was likely involved.

    1. There is a local dealers for Ural here. I know the guy personally, he is very meticulous in assembling these things. He has a machine shop and any parts he has deemed unfit get replaced with better engineered bits. I can’t seem to find a website but he is kinda old school so it doesn’t surprise me.

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