Craigslist Crapshoot

By Robert Emslie Aug 10, 2016

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. 
Last week we went looking for the largest displacement car and truck engines money can buy. We’ll see what’s a big deal in a sec, but first this week’s quest.
I’m getting fed up with Ferraris, and Lamborghinis to me are just so lame. Maseratis don’t amuse me and Porsches are just too prevalent for my taste too. What’s a fella to do?
This week let’s look for super and near-super cars, but only from weirdo brands from the past 30 years. Can we find us some Molslers? How about a Saleen S7? Can you say MG XPower SV? I knew you could. Let’s find all the off-brand super cars for sale we can.
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, let’s get displaced.


Bigger is better. Would you like that super-sized? Who’s the Big Cheese? You know, unless you make a living as a waif, or are flying coach it seems that size really does matter. Of course when it comes to car engines many have long lived by the mantra that there’s no substitute for cubic inches.
That’s what we sought last week, and what was found by you was capacity to spare. Let’s start with JayP who brought back a 1949 Ford Anglia dragster with a supercharged 565-cubic inch V8. That of course has limited application, mostly centered on getting a quarter mile away in the fastest time possible. For road-going, you could do a lot worse (or smaller) than the 572-CID 1972 Chevy Chevelle located by OA5599. Geez, the venturis on the carb on that thing look like something Lewis Carroll would through white rabbits down.
Of course, if you’re going to go big you’re going to have to pull out the big dog and as noted by Kiefmo, who offered it up, you just don’t get much bigger—at least not factory—than the 8.4-litres of current (soon to be dead) Dodge Viper V10. That’s 512 cubic inches, which is the most offered by a modern auto maker, and likely the most for the near future too.
Congrats to Keifmo and thank you all for your excellent contributions. Now, let’s get super obscure.
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      1. As someone who was born in October of 1974 and lives two hours away from beautiful British Columbia, I support this theory.

  1. The Crosley is a rare car to most people but I’ve had the luxury of seeing quite a few. There is a guy who lives near me who has fourteen of them. I was even at a car show this weekend where I saw another six of them that weren’t owned by him that included a Crosley 4×4 and a factory V8 model. The V8 may not sound unusual but you need to understand that these are about the size of a King Midget. Which won’t make sense unless you are a fan of microcars. Think of it as being the size of an original Mini but skinnier and taller.
    Calls only Please Up for sale Rare 1949 Crosley Coupe many new parts. This is list of new parts tires brakes complete lines hoses shoes the works. Runs good starts right up. Gas tank redone new fuel pump. The list goes on and on. Asking 8495.00 OBO Call Keith for more info.
    http://allentown.craigslist.org/cto/5721167812.html

      1. I love the Viper more than almost any other car, but I think the C4 ZR1, being a DOHC Corvette, is more “off brand”.

    1. Four pictures for $137K? Is it me or is there a lot of pedal wear for the posted mileage?

      1. The pedal wear makes sense if the odometer is read as X03752.9 where X represents a nonrecorded digit of arguably nonzero value. Or the odometer doesn’t work. Or someone liked sitting behind the wheel and playing with the pedals while making engine noises. Any of these, alone or in combination, would be reasonable.

    1. That is definitely a 32v 4.6L mod motor and not a five-oh.
      But other than that, this little thing is awesome. So fugly!

    1. You have got to post this again under tonight’s Last Call. The flares on the Dodge Super Coupe may be all-original, but the flares on the Plymouth “Richard Petty” Super Coupe are all… um, ‘original’ is the kindest way to put it.

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