Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.
Surf’s up, and so were the surfers’ rides last week. We’ll catch that wave in a minute, but first, this week’s quest.
Do you have an aspirational marque? You know, one that you say once you reach a certain level of financial attainment you will own no matter what? Has that goal had to be re-set as other finical responsibilities intruded upon your dreams? That’s usually how people end up with what we’re looking for today, which is the world’s least-desirable exotics. That’s right, this week let’s find all the Maserati BiTurbos, Chrysler TCs, Ferrari Mondials and automatic-equipped 400s we can. Is there a Porsche or Mercedes model that you think just never seemed at home in their respective family? Let’s see those too.
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.
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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. Make the jump to see the coolest board buggy.
The Beach Boys once went on a Surfin’ Safari, and they documented all of America’s waviest places in Surfin’ USA. The world is ⅔rds water and that means it’s also got a ton of beaches. If you want to hit the waves that are hitting those beaches, you’re going to need to be able – as the Beach Boys advocated – to travel. Of course, seeing as you’re spending much of your time on a board in the water, you likely won’t have much dough-ray-me and so both your mode of travel and your accommodations for sleeping and securing your precious board will need to be cost effective. It would help if they were also straight up cool too.
There were a lot of cars and trucks found last week each of which could easily be considered a surfer’s paradise and a few which would offer both transport and accommodation, which is really what you’d want isn’t it? The most surferlicious of them all however, was the checkerboard
1975 Barkas B1000 found by
Sjalabais. Coming in at 1300€ which equates to about $1,850 American, this former airport service van is pretty affordable. With a desk chair poking out of a pope hole on top it also offers the perfect vantage point from which to check the surf while still completely protected from the Seagulls and their evil poop.
The B1000 came with a 45-horse two stroke triple, licensed from DKW, so this one should be both economical and slow enough not to cause any budget-braking and mellow-harshing speeding tickets along the journey. Plus, nothing serves as a finger in the face of THE MAN like a former iron curtain mini van.
Well done, Sjalabais!
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