By Robert Emslie
Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer. For last week’s jump into the fire, I asked for cars and trucks that could give you wood, but lacked a long roof. We’ll pull out the splinters after the jump, but first this week’s assignment!
This week I want you to go supernova. That is, all the ads you can find for GM’s X bodies from the seventies, the Nova, Omega, Ventura, and Apollo, and we’ll also take any Phoenix and first-generation Cadillac Sevilles you can dredge up. I want everything from dingleberry quality to rest0-rods, as they can’t have all ended up in the crusher.
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Jeff Glucker
"RAN BEFORE STOLEN!" Also pictured in the ad is an Apollo, but I can't tell if it's for sale…
<img src="http://i39.tinypic.com/fclbv5.jpg" width="500">
<a href="http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/3863025991.html” target=”_blank”>http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/3863025991.html
this: http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-…
and: http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-…
this:
http://ontario.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-classic-…
Okay, I think this is pretty bitchin' I may need to grow a mullet.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Gf3F43Nd5G75E65Jfd5t9210f9c38be01c13.jpg">
<a href="http://maine.en.craigslist.org/cto/3837437665.html” target=”_blank”>http://maine.en.craigslist.org/cto/3837437665.html
Keystones!
This one is actually pretty decent. Good price and pretty clean looking. Last smog exempt year in CA as well…
"Non smog, running pontiac ventura with a buick 350. Only asking 1800 obo."
<img src="http://oi40.tinypic.com/2z4jme0.jpg" width="500"> http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/3859072873.ht…
Could definitely do worse if I was looking for a project car.
This is an X-Body, right?
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E43J13Nf5Lf5E45F1d5n9e101e6befe5190b.jpg">
1999 RTS Nova Bus – $8000 (Waxahachie)
http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/3824486039.html
/doingthisawesome
An ex-DART bus? Awesome.
Being an ex-DART but, I immediately want to hoon it!
I can remember years ago someone hooning (it's a relative term) an ex-DTS GM six-window (New Look) bus at the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Day parade, that is, until the cops told them to beat it.
Holy Tailgate Machine! I'll see your school bus and raise you a city…
This beastly 1974 Pontiac Ventura looks ready to rumble, complete with "Yenko" wheels, which apparently means red-painted steelies with a chrome center cap.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Gd3I93H35Ge5E85H2d5s938050fedc691874.jpg"/>
<a href="http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/3811651534.html” target=”_blank”>http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/3811651534.html
Not bad at all.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E73Id3N25L45K35Mfd5uc7e6ef2d52e3114e.jpg">
***72 Buick Skylark for sale!!!!*** – $4000
<a href="http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/cto/3838472651.html” target=”_blank”>http://sanantonio.craigslist.org/cto/3838472651.html
Wait, that's a A-Body. Derp.
1980 Chevrolet Citation (Numbers Matching) – $67000 (Leander)
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3K13N93He5I65M55J7d52388dc5e53d2e1344.jpg">
<a href="http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/3780520920.html” target=”_blank”>http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/3780520920.html
Wrong. 1980 Chevy Citation and $67,000 are not matching numbers.
I'd expect at least 2000 of them for that kind of money.
Dude, what is it with the drugs down there?!
There are at least three extra digits on this asking price…or it's supposed to be in old Mexican pesos.
I got a matching crap for you in Brazil
<img src="http://bimg1.mlstatic.com/gm-citation-1984-28-v6-prata-automatico_MLB-F-4373285922_052013.jpg" width="600"> http://carro.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-488026691-gm…
I'm not sure this contraption has enough motor. Isn't 396cid like… 3.9 liters or something? Weak.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E63sb3H45I15s75Fed6a083884a6481e1c49.jpg"/>
<a href="http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/3862960315.html” target=”_blank”>http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/3862960315.html
MORE!!!
<img src="http://i39.tinypic.com/fmipw.jpg" width="550">
<a href="http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/3812451412.html” target=”_blank”>http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/cto/3812451412.html
I see your Schwartz is as big as mine.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3K83J33N95I85G75M8d4d60ef87d9de0a19aa.jpg" width="600"> http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/3740860660.htm…
'70 Chevy Nova street legal dragster for $27K.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3L73Md3N15G15E95Hfd52a8545f062fff178f.jpg"width="500"/>
Tasty and tasteful!
And while this might be the older, pre X-body, it was a find too excellent to not share:
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Fc3L43N65Kb5F35M1d5902c58f7119d71d80.jpg"/>
<a href="http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/3793994241.html” target=”_blank”>http://kansascity.craigslist.org/cto/3793994241.html
"Everything on the car is fine except engine does not work."
<img src="http://oi40.tinypic.com/e8mhzm.jpg" width="500">
<a href="http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/3854653689.html” target=”_blank”>http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/3854653689.html
V8… Pinto… Pickup…
Not at all what this Crapshoot is about… but I can't not show you guys this…
<img src="http://i44.tinypic.com/kc1cfd.jpg" width="500">
<a href="http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/3837829473.html” target=”_blank”>http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/3837829473.html
Eww, that is scary looking, sawzall scars, sharpie marked switches, all the signs of a hasty build. Bring a fire extinguisher on every ride.
Hope your tetanus shot is current.
Most likely a nightmare wearing a fright wig, but here it is. First Caddy bonus points! http://lakeland.craigslist.org/cto/3761226989.htm…
This one does look quite lovely, but I can't help but think the price is a touch ambitious.
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzUwWDEwMDA=/$T2eC16J,!wsE9suw)zD1BRsdMquNYQ~~48_20.JPG" width="500">
$18,500
Ratty doesn't begin to describe the interior on this '76 Nova hatchback:
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Gd3t43Kc5r45s85M6d6a7507fd7dc2501c92.jpg">
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3r83L23J15Kf5s45J3d6a48784edf054b1bb0.jpg">
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/3862974120.h…
For something more elegant, how 'bout a '76 Nova Concours, for $900?
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E73K53Hb5I95E35Fdd5uf991bb0404cb13d9.jpg">
No title.
<a href="http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/3838364000.html” target=”_blank”>http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/3838364000.html
So this guy is finally selling his '79 Nova, and did you know that '79 was the last year Novas were muscle cars? That's what the ad says. (Yes, I know that '79 was the last RWD Nova – a friend of mine had a '79).
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3G83L73M55I45F55H1d46e567eacf0c5414ef.jpg">
<a href="http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/3726715406.html” target=”_blank”>http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/3726715406.html
Ran when parked!
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E63G23N85Nb5Ee5Kcd63c757c59fe3d31c37.jpg" width="500" />
<a href="http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/cto/3846431035.html” target=”_blank”>http://inlandempire.craigslist.org/cto/3846431035.html
Here's a sweet '77 Seville at Bonham Chrysler in Bonham, a dealer that always seems to have weird stuff like this. It just needs a set of genuine Cadillac wire wheel covers. Odo says 19,088, so it could be that or 119,088.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3K13Ff3If5Ed5H75M2d4e6f84079902e41426.jpg">
<a href="http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/ctd/3743749337.html” target=”_blank”>http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/ctd/3743749337.html
Oh such a nice car let down by those tacky plastic wheel covers.
"Chicks dig this car. Bench seats so the lady can sit snug right next to you."
Need he say more?
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3I13M73Hf5L35Gf5Fed585671fd42c94c1305.jpg" />
He's firm on price.
Here is what's left of a FACTORY 5-SPEED Olds Omega.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3K73F13Md5Lb5N45Edd4j9d8ffbbe698a15a0.jpg"width=500> <a href="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/3753883361.html” target=”_blank”>http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/3753883361.html
I had neighbors in Maryland when I was a kid who had a 260 V8 5-speed Cutlass. I'll never see another one.
Comes with it's own toe tag with prewritten gibberish
Here you go…a Coupe Seville.
/facepalm
http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/3791689489.h…
<img src="http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/pp29/mckellyb/coupeseville_zpsa0d667e9.jpg">
Ace and Gary's IRL ride.
Hey, that was uncalled for…I was trying to eat my lunch!
I tell ya, it's all fun and games until somebody gets mean about it.
WANT
FOR FIGURE-8 TRAILER RACING
I'd make my kids drive it to High School. Yes, I had children just so I could mess with them.
Best. Birth Control. Ever.
I want it and I want a blown LS2. Or 2 LS1's… looks like they'd fit under the acre of hood.
Caddy Coupe? Anyone want some???
I would drive that every single day….
What it lacks in taste and beauty it makes up for in ostentatious vulgarity.
An Omega that had an untimely meeting with a tree.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Kf3Nb3Hc5If5L75G9d54bf244d99539d1e7c.jpg"width=500> <a href="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/cto/3774018995.html” target=”_blank”>http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/cto/3774018995.html
That's a damn shame.
A semi-decent Omega
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3q43N33H75I55G45r5d6cc2790a254cc71881.jpg"width=500> <a href="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/cto/3865855921.html” target=”_blank”>http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/cto/3865855921.html
A pretty nice Ventura.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E23td3H25Eb5Hf5t9d6b82849f997d721f68.jpg"width=500> <a href="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/3865022775.html” target=”_blank”>http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/cto/3865022775.html
And a really crappy one.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3ra3t53sd5rd5tf5J7d6b444b2ddb362a18a2.jpg"width=500> <a href="http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/3840674100.html” target=”_blank”>http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/3840674100.html
Those wheels look unexpectedly good on that car.
It has a mid-1990s High School Bad Boy vibe going. But that works on this car.
A Seville with REALLY bad tires and in need of at least a good tune-up, maybe a new engine.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Ed3G13L15Ga5K95J5d65219f36e9b4c8171a.jpg"width=500> http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/cto/3850567173….
How in the hell do tires which are…<does the math>…37 years old AND which have 76K (!!!!) miles on them, still hold air? Even for the 45 seconds it takes to take a picture?
If original tires…then likely original fuel. Four gallons of Techron, over the course of about 1K miles, will fix that…maybe.
They never mentioned original tires. They also didn't mention that there are NO belts on the front of the engine as a possible reason not to drive it.
Seeing the wear on the steering wheel, it could be 176,000 miles.
Yeah, I was in too much of a hurry and I saw 'miles' as 'tires'.
It was a bad day, yesterday.
Green Seville in France, $11800:
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/$(KGrHqYOKosE5k7FnlQkBOdGQEoCTw~~_19.JPG">
<a href="http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/cadillac-seville-la-boisse/151414378.html?lang=en” target=”_blank”>http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/cadillac-seville-la-boisse/151414378.html?lang=en
This amazing place has one too, for only $18400……….and LeBaron with 147k km for $7800….and Stratus Convertible for $9000
Link: http://home.automobile.fr/AUTOGALLERY#ses
A '71 C-10 pickup, with factory a/c? A GMC motorhome? WTH?
Yo, dawg, I herd you like Seville, so I here's a Seville in Yurrup, so you can drive yo Seville to Seville.
Nova V8 Custom in Germany:
<img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$T2eC16VHJHoE9n3Ke5MmBRV(zGV,t!~~48_1.JPG">
<a href="http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/chevrolet-andere-nova-custom-v8-h-zul-ratingen/176792885.html?lang=en” target=”_blank”>http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/chevrolet-andere-nova-custom-v8-h-zul-ratingen/176792885.html?lang=en
Where did the sedans go? Except for the white sedan above all are coupes! Give me a 4-door!
Here you go: a nice-looking '72 4-door Nova in eastern Iowa; reasonably priced, natch:
http://iowacity.craigslist.org/cto/3853791342.htm…
(I'd post a pic, but don't know how to do so here… )
Courtesy embed because this is one gloriously green Nova.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3r13Le3qc5re5s55qed66b0bbe55a05a514a3.jpg" width="600">
I'm not sure what that truck behind it is, but I wants it too.
Here’s a rough one for you, with an inline 6!
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Ic3Mb3J25E35t95Jcd65b903a5f8872c144f.jpg" width="600"> http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/3852130897.htm…
I know it's not a X-body but it is a body, and it can be yours to hunt ghosts
<img src="http://images.orkut.com/orkut/photos/PQAAAHyGBrlNIcukK7qGeoCCXG0eYVYN7T0YovKhJ4c30QjHgtRVgVi73h5QddO_85O_m3KQt6qhpjcBFPB1FSmGt_4Am1T1UBXZNao6Z7tZSzS3EZaotvDa9ZAa.jpg" width="600">
http://carro.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-484642746-ch…
That actually rocks.
What?
This gets pretty local from a Norwegian perspective, and what I find looking for your answers is actually pretty cool. Just one car today, a 1976 Cadillac Seville. One owner, picked up in New York, spent it's only 60000km long life in Norway. Well kept and pretty. Squarish, obviously.
<img src="http://finncdn.no/mmo/2013/6/vertical-3/03/8/371/867/68_594915800_xl.jpg" width="600">
<img src="http://finncdn.no/mmo/2013/6/vertical-3/03/8/371/867/68_692236776_xl.jpg" width="600">
<img src="http://finncdn.no/mmo/2013/6/vertical-3/03/8/371/867/68_2095402033_xl.jpg" width="600">
<img src="http://finncdn.no/mmo/2013/6/vertical-3/03/8/371/867/68_982557504_xl.jpg" width="600">
<img src="http://finncdn.no/mmo/2013/6/vertical-3/03/8/371/867/68_555877391_xl.jpg" width="600">
<img src="http://finncdn.no/mmo/2013/6/vertical-3/03/8/371/867/68_1718556532_xl.jpg" width="600">
<img src="http://finncdn.no/mmo/2013/6/vertical-3/03/8/371/867/68_1806117410_xl.jpg" width="600">
<img src="http://finncdn.no/mmo/2013/6/vertical-3/03/8/371/867/68_1944822504_xl.jpg" width="600">
So this happy American will set you back about 15000$.
Dig the homemade amber rear turn signals.
what the hell is in the background? some sort of ski ramp?
Looks quite similar to current version of famous Holmenkollen Ski Jump Hill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmenkollbakken
The Manic King gets the price.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Ga3M43Na5Lc5Gd5Ead58b345e55ebfbd190d.jpg">
A TV star! http://longisland.craigslist.org/cto/3793389015.h…
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Ke3Fe3J95L15Ef5M9d5m165c282eacda1d0d.jpg">
A real cruizer? http://newhaven.craigslist.org/cto/3822746933.htm…
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3E63M93H45Ia5F35Jbd6503ce6ba8697a1ee4.jpg"/>
"MAKE: PONTIAC
MODEL: OLDSMOBILE OMEGA"
FWD X-car in orange on BLACK PLATINUM rimzzz <a href="http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/3851656824.html” target=”_blank”>http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/3851656824.html
I've been wanting this exact 64 Falcon for a few years, now that its for sale I have too many cars and too few monies :/ http://humboldt.craigslist.org/cto/3864342669.htm…
I looked around a bit for a copy of that old Citation ad..the one where the self-supporting hitch is used to hook up a trailer and then they took the rear wheels off. Always wanted one just to drive around town like that.
I have an unhealthy amount of want for this.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Ec3L33J75G15K15Fbd5b92d2194e0d8a1780.jpg" width="600"> http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/3799725074.htm…
Stuntman Mike approves.
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3K53sa3q15N15sf5H9d6becd2c470a81c1219.jpg" width="600"> http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/3864732199.htm…
Okay, I've been thoroughly enjoying this site for quite awhile now. I strongly approve. Keep up the great work!!
This is my first post, I hope it goes well.
I assume a lot of you have seen this thing and who knows if it still exists or is for sale… but I thought it worth adding to conversation.
<img src="http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/novasnowmobile03_resized.jpg">
I couldn't find my pictures of it but there is a hemmings article here: http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2006/12/16/the…
Enjoy!
Yes, it's currently for sale. It turned up on the 24 Hours of LeMons forum a few days ago:
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=218&ad=25127…
Only $1000, plus another $2500 if you want the custom trailer for hauling it away.
This is not an uncommon statement when reading ad copy in central AZ.
"it does not have a starter or a coil or mufflers because I use it on my truck it would be a good car for someone to fix up"
Welcome to my world… http://prescott.craigslist.org/cto/3866950224.htm…