Craigslist Crapshoot

By Robert Emslie May 29, 2013

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 I asked you to go long and intercept some American Cars for sale outside of the U.S. of A., and boy, it was surprising just how ubiquitous American iron has become.  We’ll get to that in a minute, but first this week’s assignment!

This week I want – no, I need – for you to bring me the kit and caboodle. By that I mean of course kit cars. But I don’t want just any kit cars, I want kit cars that look like other cars.  Fiberfab MGTDs, Kelmark Independences, or the white whale of them all, the freaky Datsun Z-aping SIE Triad, I want em all. In fact, anyone who finds a Triad, for sale or not, will be instantly crowned the winnah.

And as usual, 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 ti**@********se.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. And now, Let’s go see if we can find some ugly Americans.
Okay, now normally while you all come up with some great cars and trucks there’s one that, in my mind at least, sticks out as the greatest example of the task given. Usually I crown that ad’s finder the king of bling for the week. This time it’s different. Last week you provided so many awesome finds that it was impossible to pick just one as the winner. Instead, this week I’d like to offer ALL OF YOU the crown and a hearty well done. I’d especially like to call out Muthalovin for the sheer volume of awesome dug up, as well as Devin for some Hulk-fetting Fast & Furious Tokyo terribleness, and finally  Number_Six for the ultimate in mind-bending globe hopping with a Cyprus-located Chevy Suburban advertised on a South Korean car site. 
 
You can of course go back and see just how amazing all the finds were by clicking here. Well done and congrats to everyone for the group win.
109 thoughts on “Craigslist Crapshoot”
    1. I'm disappointed, I thought you had found someone trying to sell a Triad in the comments like 40 weeks after the post went-up.

    1. "8 horse power bridge and straiten"
      I am enter vested in your otto movil how rely a bell is it? Can I dive it to werk every dai? What kind of gas myle age dose it get?

    1. Company slogan:
      UPR. Because nothing makes cheap black plastic look cheaper and blacker than ugly chrome knobs.

      1. Those Avenger Ford GT40 kit cars are so goofy looking. Their front end looks like a duck bill.

    1. I came upon the same ad, and was likewise smitten. One troubling line in the ad is “This price won't last come springtime.” What time of year does the seller think this is? Has it really been for sale for that long? Granted, I don’t have $7k for such a limited use vehicle, but I would have to imagine it’s worth at least that to somebody.

      1. I agree. And I'd never ever use the combo "motivated seller" in one of my ads. This really raised my eyebrows. The car though is supercool, and I'd like to know what's driving it. And if the text is just stickers…

    2. I would drive it every day. Wearing a bomber jacket, leather helmet and aviator goggles. And smoking a pipe.

          1. Make sure it's long enough to reach the rear wheel spokes, for the full experience…

    1. That's probably as much an original 1953 Corvette as half the 1950s Ferraris and Maseratis that are out there. I wonder if they kept the Vette VIN number. I know there is more than one case of a 7 figure car from the 1950s or 1960s with the same serial number existing in more than one place and both are considered somewhat legitimate examples.

    1. This car showed up to quite a few of the KCR SCCA autocrosses last year. Always a fun car to watch. I'm really surprised he's selling it with all the work he's sunk into it. Bloody fast car when he's not looping it. It's pretty severely overpowered though, I regularly beat his times in my Mustang just because he couldn't keep it pointed in the right direction when his foot got a little too heavy. Only problems he seemed to have with it is it kept tearing up the differential mount (surprise surprise with that much torque on tap).

    1. That's a fascinating picture, since you first notice the front end. So I was sitting here thinking "That doesn't look so ba…" and then I noticed the T-bird middle. And the directional wheels pointing in different directions.

    1. I see nothing wrong with that. If Lindsay Lohan was was to tumble out of that at an awards ceremony my respect for her would soar.
      Of course, she'd have to do something worth being nominated for. Forget I mentioned it.

  1. SHAZAAM!
    Fierorrari Testarossa!
    "WANT CRAZY ATTENTION? CAN YOU HANDLE IT? YOU WILL BECOME AN OVERNITE CELEBRITY EVERYWHERE YOU GO!"
    http://fresno.craigslist.org/cto/3827284699.html
    <img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3K63J43Nb5I15M35Jdd5o3f4a386c4dcc1b6e.jpg&quot; width=350>
    Here's a couple pictures of it at a motel.
    <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/sniperalezgunworks/9thannualcaliforniacoastrun/websize/100_0085.JPG&quot; width=350>
    <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/sniperalezgunworks/9thannualcaliforniacoastrun/websize/100_0029.JPG&quot; width=350>

    1. Countach? Nope, either a Ferrari Daytona body over Corvette running gear (hey, a kit car!), or a Testarossa (the real thing). Unless you're talking about cars driven by guest stars.
      And, oh yeah: "Calderone!"

      1. Yeah, meant more the era and ethos of the thing than Crockett's actual ride. Stated it badly.

    1. I guess they actually sold these in the US. I had no idea.
      I guarantee you would win something at LeMons if you put that engine in a Fiero.

    1. A friend of mine owns one (Factory Five) almost like that one. He's retired to Fredericksburg. It has early '90s Mustang GT running gear (5.0 with a 5-speed). It used to be one of the highlights of the Christmas parade in our town, draped with lights.

      1. I was out riding around near Wimberly, Dripping Springs and Driftwood, and got caught behind a whole mess of Cobra's and Factory Fives. I thought the v-twin exhaust note and the dry clutch clang-clang was loud, but when those things made their noises, I could not hear my bike.
        Twas awesome. Your friend will be in good company out in the hill country, I think.

    1. Ah, $42k with $35k in upgrades to make it look like a Raptor with "some" Raptor suspension parts. How much is a real Raptor again?

  2. I am genuinely shocked at how many people think they can build a Ferrari / Lamborghini themselves out of their Fiero / MR2 / whatever.
    I am not surprised at how few of them actually get finished.

  3. Its like you read my mind! You seem to know a
    lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something.
    I think that you could do with a few pics to drive the message home a little bit,
    but instead of that, this is great blog. An excellent read.
    I’ll definitely be back.

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