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.
Jeeps that aren’t Jeeps, that was last week’s quest. Based upon the rock hoppers that were found, there is no corner safe from the invading Hooniverse Horde©. We’ll see what we think should head that Mad Maxiacan assault in a sec, but first, it’s time for a very special edition of Craigslist Crapshoot, one in which we all get to dream.
As we’re all no doubt aware, Friday is Independence Day here, and that’s an excellent opportunity to consider what’s long been held as the ‘American Dream.’ That is to have your own little business, one that lets you be the boss. When it comes to car people, the little business has often been a gas station or mechanic’s shop. That’s what I want you to find this week – Mechanic’s Shops or Gas stations For sale. Not cars or trucks or planes or trains, land… and that elusive American Dream. You don’t even have to be an American to play, as I don’t care if the place for sale is in Cleveland or Qatar, it just needs to look cool. America, hellz yeah!
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.
- 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**@ho********.info and we can put you on the whitelist
- If you don’t want an IDC account, you can create a wordpress.com account and do the same thing.
- 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.
If you’re down with that, lets make the jump and see last week’s top rock hopper.
Despite a number of mud and bog-only rides that looked like they would be more fun than a barrel of mixologist monkeys, the best non-Jeep for my money was the one advertised doing what Jeeps do best, while leading a Jeep and showing it how it was done. What could that possibly be? Well, that was this awesome 1969 Toyota Landcruiser found by Muthalovin, which is described in its ad as being ‘trail tested.’ It’s also a beauty, but of course at nearly 20-large it probably should be. That’s one thing that you can take away from this week’s haul, if you want a Jeep, probably the cheapest option is going to be… a Jeep. Way to go Muthalovin! 
Jeff Glucker