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. 
Last week you brought us the best in bad ideas, and boy was there a lot to cogitate on. We’ll get bad to the bone right after the jump, but first this week’s Pebble Beach-themed quest.
Another Monterey weekend is in the record books, an event that is more rightfully the Monterey Week as it has expanded well beyond the traditional Historics at Laguna Seca and Pebble Beach Concours de Elegance. There’s also the 17-mile Drive Rally, the Lighthouse Rally and Show, The Concorso Italiano, auctions, and a ton of amazing iron to ogle just on the city streets and Pacific Coast Highway. I skipped this year owing to abject poverty but would like to return next year. To do so I’d probably need something pretty fancy and interesting to drive and what better time to start looking than now, and who better to help than you? Of course, I’m not all that flush so please keep the prices to under $25,000. I think that’s about what a kidney goes for these days.
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There are so many bad choices one can make over the course of one’s life. There’s marrying into the Kardashian clan, thinking that you’ll just try doing Meth just one time (that’s it, just once), or perhaps worst of all, buying a car or truck that needs… something. That last one is like dating someone who’s kind of a dick thinking, “I can change them.”
Yeah, truth be told you aren’t going to change the fact that a Land Rover Disco is a ticking time bomb of wallet-emptying despair that will turn your family against you and allow those beneath you to point and laugh at your poor choices. That’s every single one of them, there isn’t a Monday/Friday Disco, they’re all bad pennies. And yet still many of you want one. You people confuse me.
There’s no confusion about our winner however, which is this 1989 Lotus Esprit found by Jeepster. Holy Rock and Rollie Pollie, where to begin? The Esprit, much like the Land Rover Discovery, was never a paragon of reliability and toughness, no matter what that Top Gear Argentine show said. Of course, in this car’s case replacing the turbo four (V4, seriously seller?) with an iron block SBC should make it more reliable and cheaper to repair right?
Yeah, I don’t think so. I also don’t think that 350 is putting out anywhere near the claimed 520-bhp the ad says it does. There’s also the poor shape of the bodywork, and the fact that it is being sold “Parts Only” which means its days working the streets are as over as are Julia Roberts.’ Topping off the awfulness is the fact that it’s offered in Miami.
Congrats to Jeepster for finding so strong a cautionary tale, and thanks to you all for the rest of the bad decisions none of us hopefully will make.