By Robert Emslie
It’s Wednesday and that must mean it’s time for our weekly dumpster dive, Craigslist Crapshoot. Last week I asked you to find the finest in Chrysler’s savior, the K-car. More on that after the jump, but first let’s get to this week’s assignment.
This being April Fools week, I thought it might be fun to look for cars that perhaps clowns might like to call home. You know how traditionally at the circus a tiny car – freakishly small really – would enter the ring. It would circle a few times, twee horn beeping, headlights flashing. Then it would stop and a door would open. Out would step a single clown, all gayly colored hobo clothes and garish makeup, hair bobbing from having just fit through the tiny door opening. That clown would step away, stretching and waving at the crowd while another would emerge from the same door. And another, and another, and another. Eventually a dozen or more would have popped miraculously from the tiny environs of the clown car. It’s a crowd pleaser if you don’t happen to find clowns completely terrifying.
That’s what I wan’t you to find this week – impossibly tiny cars. I want Goggomobils, Honda 600zs, the whole gamut of clown-approved driving fare.
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Jeff Glucker
Well I'll start you off with a truck that's colorful like a clown, how's that? Only $23,000!
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzUwWDEwMDA=/$T2eC16JHJIQE9qUHrWnMBRW4017ZtQ~~48_20.JPG" width="500">
I'll start playing by the rules now
I do believe that a clown would enjoy this:
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Gb3Fd3I35K15Fe5M9d3s5d1da9cf8dbd1cd4.jpg">
Though, sadly, the motor is twister, so, you know. I do not know.
DRAG BANSHEE——— TWISTER MOTOR
http://austin.craigslist.org/mcy/3709077798.html
Now I'll be doing it wrong, with a Mitsubishi Delica Exceed 4×4 with a manual transmission.
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$T2eC16V,!)cE9s4Ptm3jBRWOdb2H!w~~48_20.JPG" width="500">
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$T2eC16d,!y8E9s2fk3NSBRWOcgPgJQ~~48_20.JPG" width="500">
Who's tempted? Me.
me too
Though not small, a FABULOUS clown would rock this:
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3F43Lc3M95Nf5L25H5d42f277b39bdb591678.jpg">
CUSTOM SLAB SL500 BENZ/TRADE – $1
<a href="http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/3719647370.html” target=”_blank”>http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/3719647370.html
"To protect and be ridiculed…"
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3G73Mf3Ia5N25I65Kcd31e0ee287eb41b18ab.jpg">
<a href="http://scranton.craigslist.org/cto/3652939458.html” target=”_blank”>http://scranton.craigslist.org/cto/3652939458.html
Found in the Schrute Farms barn, a never-completed project started by Moes
Tempting…
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E53Kc3M75L75Ec5F7d3obbbe822685b4129d.jpg">
http://allentown.craigslist.org/cto/3701637698.ht…
Amazing articulation! Somebody is ready for Moab…
If only it had four doors…
Here's a Chevy Sprint from my hometown. It is expertly photographed.
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/$T2eC16V,!zoE9s5ne+czBRV4j3PRsg~~48_20.JPG" width="500">
Find it here
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3M43Ib3H15E55K65J7d3v0e79effe454f1763.jpg">
"Somewhat open to trades. No guns, weed, or boats" <a href="http://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/3714485850.html” target=”_blank”>http://sacramento.craigslist.org/cto/3714485850.html
Just as well. I'm going to need all the weed I can get to relieve the stress of driving that rollerskate.
1952 Crosley Super Hot Shot Roadster – $14000 http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/3717738292.ht…
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3K23Gb3Jc5L25N85K4d4197577c2159661cfd.jpg" width="500">
Cute little bugger…
A Suzuki Carry with Camo.
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$T2eC16dHJIQE9qUHuFd1BRWG!Jep6w~~48_20.JPG" width="500">
It being on a flatbed doesn't inspire confidence.
Where is it?
At least it has camo so you can't be seen in it
In the cool stuff department, Toyota Sera.
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzUwWDEwMDA=/$T2eC16VHJIQE9qUHtHqFBRRhKWuEy!~~48_20.JPG" width="500">
If I wasn't flat broke I'd be in Regina buying it now.
I love the pronunciation of Regina.
Home of the Wheat Kings.
That's Brandon. Regina is where you go to see the Pats.
Dang, I'm old and my memory is failing me. WHL season ticket holder, 1991-93.
Hey, these will be legal to import in three years… I may have to start saving. That's too awesome to pass up.
Daihatsu Midget II for the small price of 6800 monopoly monies!
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3n33K93H35G15H65Jed3ha3b5cb16baf7143e.jpg" width="600"> <a href="http://victoria.en.craigslist.ca/cto/3663788524.html” target=”_blank”>http://victoria.en.craigslist.ca/cto/3663788524.html
That's. . . kinda awesome.
Not kinda. I want it.
You're right. No more kinda.
I think I'm in love.
That looks like THE perfect pizza delivery truck.
You're so right! I'll be very disappointed when my next pie arrives in a Cavalier.
It'd do equally well in service of the Geek Squad or a florist.
Yep, good ideas. Any small delivery service could use this. Even something like a mobile sandwich vendor. (Can you tell I have food trucks on the brain? 'Cause, I do.)Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
This would be over the TOP with a set of PANASPORTS!!!11!!!one!!
<img src="http://www.algysautos.com/images/subaru-samba-daihatsu-midget.jpg">
+1 to whoever finds a better copy of this picture…
<img src="http://i56.tinypic.com/34e80va.jpg" width=640 />
Oly-hay Ap-cray! A whole article on them!
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-…
Check out the comments–one just like your blue one above way down links to a huge image.
But the gem of the whole tiara, this Citroen-ized masterpiece!
<img src="http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/1999_Daihatsu_Midget_II_citroen_hy_1.jpg" width="450/">
You know, because a "regular" Midget II just doesn't stand out enough.
If only…
How about a very, very rare "Austin Haley" project from 1967? It even comes with a holy carburetor, so the fuel and air reach the cylinders as if spit into them by Jesus H. Christ hisownself!
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Ib3Lb3Hc5L95F95H4d416a78625f03641bef.jpg" />
Find it here in Fontucky, er, Fontweaker, oh, nevermind…
Weirdly, it died for three days recently, and then it suddenly started again.
Praise Lucas.
You, too, worship the Dark Lord…?
Kind of a bogus challenge this week.
Someone is going to harvest web pictures of a certain Washington-based best-of-the-breed, and put up a fake Craigslist ad around it in order to win the prize.
<img src="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/drive-on/2009/11/24/mystery9backx-large.jpg">
Maybe that should be the challenge-within-the-challenge. Who can come up with the best ad to thin the herd at Casa de Harrell?
I've already sold one car within the last twelve months. I'm fine.
That's OK, it doesn't matter. This contest isn't designed to actually clear your driveway. The only purpose is to get oddballs phoning you at three in the morning, disbelieving that you didn't actually place the ad.
In that case please use my cellphone number.
You're not really used to sun where you live I see, ouch.
I drove one thousand miles with my MGB's top down, in August, to get there. No hat. After the show, having learned nothing, I drove back home the same way. Ouch indeed.
http://miami.craigslist.org/pbc/cto/3714421890.ht…
I won't admit that its local to me. I just wont!
This one is actually tempting:
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E13M63Hf5L35Ff5J9d3sca11301c55ad1c44.jpg"width=500> http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/3709715014….
Just add some racing seats and all the Spridget/MGB go fast goodies you can find.
I would like to put that in the back of the barn for thirty years.
Needs Panasports
http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s573/frank077…
Courtesy Embed:
<img src="http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s573/frank077/Picture4484_zps456fb11f.jpg" width=500>
thank you, I need to figure how to do it.
http://hooniverse.info/image-embed/
Also, needs Panasports.
Panasports to all the things!
A grand for a dilapidated Spitfire with NO ENGINE!?!?!
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Gd3F83J45Gf5H95J6d2gd7d33d995d2c1feb.jpg"width=500> http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/cto/3622113683….
Maybe he could afford a camera that focuses if he sells the car.
I dunno, the thought of putting a turbocharged 13B rotary in that made me smile.
The headline calls it a clown car, so it must be one.
http://waco.craigslist.org/pts/3716473516.html
grand marquis / clown vic donk – $1 (burleson, tx)
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3G13F73N45N75E85Hbd417bb23ca990bc1b81.jpg">
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2005 grand marquis 4.6 v8
parting out whole car ( no front clip )
all parts you have to pull on your own
This sort of thing is the reason I find this game scary:
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3G33L13F85L45I85F1d3v469a8e8fc0cc15d4.jpg" width="450">
Only about forty miles away….
http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cto/3714776448….
Note the adjacent riding lawnmower for scale.
Scary in that you can do this! SBC + supercharger + 3' Hurst = Real Live RatFink!
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v630/camaro82/2163873145_6f597d047e.jpg" width="450">
The King and the Metropolitan seem like good deals to me.If either was closer I would be buying.
The lawnmower had more horsepower.
And bigger tires.
The perfect ride for the King of the Midgets.
It amazes me that, regardless of how small a car might be, CL photographers can't seem to get the whole thing in the frame.
71 Honda N600 – $2900 (mesa)
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3G63I83Jd5L75Fe5Mad3n9bf5ed2c583313cd.jpg" width=400>
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/3700309301….
Yup.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3nc3F33J65Ec5J95Mad2afdf5617a2db01e80.jpg"/> <a href="http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/3607193126.html” target=”_blank”>http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/3607193126.html
It's the ZAP electric car! Looks like a like a Reliant Robin and a box truck got it on. The seller assure it goes 40mph and it can go 40 miles on a single charge…if the sun is out.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E33N13H85Ib5L75Mcd3g2b50f7516dc11555.jpg"> http://madison.craigslist.org/cto/3685737535.html
Pretty close. Reliant Robin plus box truck equals Reliant Ant (a.k.a. Reliant TW9):
<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2557/4118645800_5e5513c740.jpg" width="450">
*Rolls over in front of British celebrity*
"Oh, bother."
Reliant Ant seems like it would be really annoying to say.
But the one on the left does look like it would do an excellent job polishing the living room floor.
Reliant…ant…ant…
and you're going downhill.
with a tail wind.
I think I win because it can't get any more clown car than an actual clown's car.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Ie3J23H55Ee5Fa5Hed3pe9fae7f30c411c93.jpg" width="600">
http://stlouis.craigslist.org/atq/3703918237.html
Came here to post this: http://maine.craigslist.org/clt/3709843174.html
Samey same.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Lc3M73Fe5E35Fb5J9d3s5bf1684415621727.jpg">
The thing about the Crapshoot is I always find cars I really want.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Gf3Ld3H85N35Fb5M5d3t3ba13fdd86fb1ce2.jpg">
and
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3G43Ie3H85N15K85Fed3p62caefe9f0d61510.jpg">
http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/3712301611.html
<a href="http://killeen.craigslist.org/cto/3698196281.html” target=”_blank”>http://killeen.craigslist.org/cto/3698196281.html
So I’m looking at the screen grab of last week’s winning entry, and I notice something bizarre. Does anyone else find the number 4,986,286 oddly specific as a number to be “over”? It would, however, be nerdily awesome if the page were coded to display, in real time, n-1.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Kd3M43ob5L35N85Edd28385441f7c3571a6b.jpg">
69 fiat 500 in Hotlanta – this thing is beautifully clean but at $15500 Marion Barry must be selling it.
<a href="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/3604143197.html” target=”_blank”>http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/3604143197.html
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3K83Ld3J25Lc5M15Jcd3u513dc0db7a741d32.jpg">
78 Fiesta – Yess! its even bright yellow. i think the heat is getting to GA….. GO DAWGS!!! #UgaIsMyHomeboy
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/sat/cto/3712454237….
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Kd3Fe3L35Ia5Fc5Med3l73bfc56fd86417b0.jpg">
07 Zap truck – a better view of a Zap.
<a href="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/sat/cto/3695861235.html” target=”_blank”>http://atlanta.craigslist.org/sat/cto/3695861235.html
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3M73Lb3H65Ia5E65K2d3g5bc62c227d9015f3.jpg"/>
"This is a street legal electric car that is aloud on roads 35 MPH and less" http://longisland.craigslist.org/cto/3685013872.h…
$17000 126p still hasn't sold <a href="http://longisland.craigslist.org/cto/3671611147.html” target=”_blank”>http://longisland.craigslist.org/cto/3671611147.html
If it's electric, why is it loud?
I always wondered what a Datsun 2000 triumph austin healey mg opel looked like.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E93Ld3I25Na5Ed5K1d3q4e7edb51635a14a2.jpg">
Not bad. Not bad at all. <a href="http://nh.craigslist.org/cto/3705690114.html” target=”_blank”>http://nh.craigslist.org/cto/3705690114.html
I got nothing, really, from my locals — all the KC folks have already combed the CL.
But this popped up in Topeka, and astoundingly, it isn't Fiero-based:
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3L93F53J25I25N35Hbd3k7d9c175db3641162.jpg">
<a href="http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/3694446627.html” target=”_blank”>http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/3694446627.html
just one of those intriguing collections. what else is lurking in that garage?
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3K13G73F45I85Gc5E1d3r282d3fb8ddcb1637.jpg" width="600"> http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cto/370695…
300 Ziata
<img scr="http://imgur.com/OdXSE" width=600px /> <a href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cto/3718263941.html” target=”_blank”>http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cto/3718263941.html
300 Ziata
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/OdXSEl.jpg" width=600> <a href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cto/3718263941.html” target=”_blank”>http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cto/3718263941.html
newly microcar-ed
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E23Ge3J65L55I15F4d2s97eaa8f8e7ac1bb3.jpg" width=600> <a href="http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cto/3650513273.html” target=”_blank”>http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/cto/3650513273.html
If you squint really really hard you might confuse it with a Dodge Charger 2.2:
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3G53Me3La5E85Kd5J6d3bb720b9c520d112a0.jpg">
<a href="http://roanoke.craigslist.org/cto/3675237621.html” target=”_blank”>http://roanoke.craigslist.org/cto/3675237621.html
Who would BOTHER to make a kit car Bricklin???
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/$T2eC16dHJGwE9n)yUstuBRQlIJy3Lw~~48_20.JPG" width="600"> http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-…
Can be yours for a ludicrous amount of canadian dollars in Toronto!
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