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 campfire song? Mine’s Kookaburra. Before we sing under the stars however, we’ll need to sing the praises of the compact campers you all came up with last week. Merit badges for all! That’ll be right after we get this week’s quest out of the way.  
Do you like cottage cheese? Yeah, not too many people do. What about cottage cars? You know, those built in small numbers by companies like TVR, Wiesmann and Panoz. That’s what we want to find this week—the best deals we can for cottage cars.
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Got that? Good, now let’s set up camp!
After reviewing all the entries, I think we can easily sort all of the campers you found into one of two categories: those that any of us would want for all the right reasons, and those that we’d want for all the wrong reasons. Let’s start with the rights.
First off, you can’t really go wrong with a VW pop-top Multivan, especially not with a five-pot diesel/manual gearbox one as was found in Norway by nanoop. Spin gave us a sleeper van that wasn’t creepy at all, while mdharrell offered up a Camper-topped Jeep that looked close enough to summer fun to be worth its asking. For those needing a place to sleep and stuff to tow, smalleyxb122 suggested a 1978 Towlounge, which as its name suggests will do both.
Okay, now to the want it despite my better judgement listings. Let’s start with the charm bracelet-cute Fiat 850T camper brought to us by crank_case. That was only slightly less lust worthy than the Alfa Romeo A12 Camper unearthed by Jofes2. That was only slightly less questionable an adventure to get into than the 600-cc Aixam Mega-Multitrunk that crank_case found, and which was confirmed by outback_ute able to be converted into a camper. In fact, it should be pointed out that crank_case was on fire last week.
Out winner however was P161911 for the offering of an amazing ’70s Rectrans Discoverer, a bloated whale of a Dodge-based mini-motorhome notable for having been designed by the late Larry Shinoda. It’s so rare to come across one of those today that I think it deserves mention.
Congrats to P161911, and thank you all for your great getaways. Now, let’s go see if we can find some tasty cottage cheese, er, cars.