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.
I like Big Rigs and I cannot lie, you other truckers can’t deny, when one rolls down the road with its heavy load, those 18 wheels just makes me sigh. It turns out that finding big rigs to buy is no mean feat. That being said, you all did come up with some amazing trucks for sale. We’ll see which one had the most pull in just a sec. First however, we have this week’s business to which to attend.
Have you ever been on this little site called Bring a Trailer? Yeah, I know, it’s not as popular as, of say, Hooniverse, but it’s still pretty cool. Anyway, BaT offers up cars that are for sale, and most of those are hugely desirable and noteworthy rides. This week we’re going to do the anti-bring-a-trailer. What I want you to find this week are the cars and trucks out there that are generally considered to be terrible – even when they were new. Consider it doing a public service. What we need to find are all the Daewoos, Azteks, ZX2s, Aussie Capris, and anything else you can think of that you generally wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole. Yeah, this should be fun.
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 good with that, let’s get our big rig on.
According to the Federal Highway Administration, trucks account for three-quarters of all domestic freight shipments here in the U.S.. That’s a big number and I think we all need to get in on this game. To do so we’ll need something that’ll haul – not ass – but freight, and if movies like Smokey and the Bandit, Convoy, and Duel have taught me anything, it’s that a Big Rig is the tool for the job. Last week we looked for just such a rig and while people don’t seem to be falling all over themselves to put them on the regular classifieds, you did find some fine choices that were trucking awesome. The most so? Well that was this 1996 Western Star Sleeper found by vroomsocko. At only $16,500, and featuring both a Cummins 550 Red Top and wicked cool horse murals, there’s pretty much nothing I don’t like about this one. Well done vroomsoko! Now, where’s that convoy? 
Jeff Glucker