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. 
What’s your favorite backyard firework? I happen to like the pinwheels myself. We didn’t just celebrate America’s Independence Day with a lot of colorful pyrotechnics here on Monday. No, we got an early start last week by looking for the most American car or truck for sale we could find. We’ll see the star spangled winner in a sec. First however, this week’s quest
Now that the 4th is past, we’re in that period of summer doldrums waiting for the next big holiday which won’t come until all the way in September. That’s a long wait for a road trip so let’s look right now for something the family might use to get out on that road. Thats right, let’s find us some performance wagons and let’s make sure they come in at under $15,000 since we’re obviously on a family budget.
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Have you ever noticed that there is such a thing as too much pie? Yeah, I didn’t think so either, but there you go. In the same fashion it seems, when it comes to cars, there is such a thing as too much America.
Piling on the patriotism, we saw an awesome but wildly expensive AMC SC/Scrambler offered up by GTXcellent, and a Bicentennial Jeep found by Alff that featured both an SBC and some Revolutionary artwork on the spare carrier. mrh1965 came up with a flag-waving chopper, while Harry Callahan noted that it doesn’t get much more American than a Model T.
Perhaps the most American in both presentation and—as a representation that we just don’t make things much here anymore—in execution was the patriotically painted and faux blower wearing TransAm located by Spridget. Nothing says modern America quite like something done half-assed!
Thanks to you all for playing, and now let’s haul ass!