Craigslist Crapshoot

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. 

You can have Game Over when you’re Pac Man is finally eaten by a ghost, you can have eggs over easy after that, and then when you want to take a spin, you won’t be able to get over driving a cabover, which we all know is the best over when it comes to trucks. We’ll gush over the coolest cabover in just a sec, but first we need to get down to business with this week’s quest. 

If you were looking to buy a cabover, or anything else for that matter, how would you p[ay for it, with cash? Or, would you use plastic? Well, instead of paying with plastic, let’s look for cars and trucks that ARE plastic and for which people are hoping someone will pay. That’s right, this week I want you to find us all sorts of plastic cars – fiberglass and RIM and the like – and here’s the kicker, no Corvettes. I’ll bet you didn’t see that one coming.

As always, we want your finds to go down in infamy and not in the site’s spam filter. Follow any of the following advice and you’re crap will be known far and wide.

  1. Easiest way to not get caught in the spam filters is to create an IntenseDebate account. If you do so and your posts aren’t appearing, let us know at tips@hooniverse.info and we can put you on the whitelist
  2. If you don’t want an IDC account, you can create a wordpress.com account and do the same thing.
  3. If you’re the Ted Kaczynski type and don’t want any kind of account, then try to place only a single link in a comment and just drop any outgoing link in via its raw URL and not as a text link
Craigslist Crapshoot doesn’t work if your candidates don’t get seen, so hopefully following one of these options will ensure that the floodgates of crap are fully open. Click on through the jump to see which cabover ruled over all the rest!
There are cabovers and then there are forward control, and the most forward of forward controls is of course the Jeep FC series. One has to wonder who first it was that looked at the stout frame of the military-grade Jeep and said, you know we should really have the driver and passenger sit right about here, just above the front tires. I don’t know who that was, but I tip my hat to them because by moving the cabin to the extreme front you suddenly gain a tremendous amount of space for all your cargo carrying pleasure. In the case of this 1962 FC 170, found by muthalovin, that’s used for a canvas covered work box with plenty of easy access storage on the sides. 
Rocking a Hurricane F-head six and potentially 4WD (the front shaft is disconnected), this cabover is just about the most Hooniversally awesome you might imagine, and that’s why it wins this week’s nod.
 
Way to go, muthalovin!
 
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Image: Austin Craigslist

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