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.
Before his passing, Michael Jackson advocated that we all “Beat It” including the sage advice: you want to stay alive, better do what you can, so beat it, just beat it. We took Michael at his posthumous word last week, seeking winter beaters to get us safely through the year’s darkest days. We’ll get our beat-on in just a sec, but first this week’s quest.
Injection is nice, but I’d rather be blown is a silk screened homily from tee-shirts of my youth. It made a lot more sense back before pretty much everything was fuel injected, but still maintains its humorously salacious double entendre nonetheless. Not every car is blown today and so we should find the best used ones that are. Let’s set $20K American has our ceiling, and see what turbocharged and supercharged dream cars we can find for sale under that cap.
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Got that? Good, now let’s see if we’ve got the beat!
It seems that the whole concept of winter beater has a different context depending on where you happen to live. For most of us an old Ford Escort, like the one found by Kiefmo would seemingly do the trick. In that case a modicum of reliability and a working heater are all you need. Hell, apparently salguod‘s daughter does just that.
For folks like GTXcellent and 1977ChevyTruck however—both of whom apparently live on Pluto—something with a bit more force is necessary. That resulted in the suggestion of a Chevy 3500 with both a stick and a BOSS plow from the former, and confirmation of the quality of the option from the latter.
Andrew_theS2kBore went for a minimalist approach, while engineerd thought flaunting the artifice of wealth the best way to get through the cold months.
Our winner however is mdharrell and his freak show on wheels “Moon Rover.” The best part of this mysterious machine is that you’d spend all winter with it in the garage trying to figure out what it is and what it does. And that’s the safest way to spend the season.
Congrats to mdharrell and thank you all for your participation. Now, let’s blow this joint.