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. 
The Nineteen Seventies gave us Disco, Stagflation, Pet Rocks, and newspaper heiresses robbing banks. It also gave us The Godfather Parts I and II, Star Wars, Kate Beckinsale, Leonardo DiCaprio, Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, and cars like the ones you all found last week. We’ll get to those right after the jump, but first I’m sure you’ll jump at the chance to learn this week’s quest.
This week’s search is going to be both sort of esoteric and environmentally conscious. I know last week I asked you to find cars you might want to own, but that’s not a criteria for this week’s search. Instead, I want you to find cars and trucks you probably wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot dipstick. What I want are high-mpg versions of typically low-mpg rides. Let’s see what kind of shape those iron duke Camaros come in these days.
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I am a child of the ’70s. I don’t remember much about the era – like the general vibe or anything – other than that most people seemed pissed off about something all the time. It might have been the War which leaked into the decade from the sixties, or Nixon who did likewise. Or maybe it was the rise of disco music, a genre that was embraced by half the population and vilified by the other half. The economy stank, and for the most part so did the cars. But that wasn’t universally true.
You all found some wonderful examples of the ’70s best for sale and I’d like to especially note the Little Red Pickup found by PleaseStandBy (who beat 1977ChevyTruck by mere minutes) as an example of a carmaker bending the rules.  When it came to the rules that many thought were ruining cars and trucks here in the States in the ’70s, they really didn’t apply to motorcycles.
The 1975 BMW R90S found by Jeepster is thus the coolest ’70s ride in the pack, and one that I have pined after for years. Of course this bike is in amazing condition and is signed by racing legend Reg Prigmore! which means it’s well outside my pay grade. Still, it’s fun to dream, and after all that’s what we do here every week. Congrats to Jeepster, and thank you all for playing!