Welcome to Craigslist Crapshoot, our weekly search for the most bizarre, awesome, and/or terrible vehicles that the online classifieds has to offer.
Last week we were looking at longroofs for the long haul, seeking wagons that would take our hypothetical family on a summer vacation, and of course we wanted them to come in brown. It’ll be wagons ho in a minute, but first we need to discuss what you’ll be doing instead of work this week.
I’m feeling lazy this week, so much so that I don’t even want you all to have to do much work. That’s why for this week’s quest I want you to find us some Miatas, after all, the answer’s always Miata, right? Okay, well maybe you should get some exercise so let’s add the stipulation that these Miatas must have something else under the hood than the standard twin-cam four. Adding turbos will be accepted, stock mills, not so much.
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 tips@hooniverse.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, get your wag on after the jump.
There have been plenty of iconic wagons over the years – Ford Country Squires, Oldsmobile Vista Cruisers, even down to the cute little Traveller produced in England by Morris. One car that’s iconic for another reason is one that you may not have eve known came as a wagon, and that’s what makes this 1958 Edsel Villager found moldering in Seattle by mdharrell so dang interesting. Now, this car skirts some of our selection criteria from last week – it’s brown only by way of suffering from some serious surface rust, and its claim of having run when parked – 30 years ago – may make its use as summer vacation transportation a little iffy, but hey, there’s still time to make it right. For those of you whose familiarity with the Edsel extends only to its position in history as a metaphor for failure, you might be interested to know all the interesting names applied to the various Edsel models over the course of its short life. Those included along with Villager, Ranger, Pacer, Corsair, and Bermuda, the last being a Nomad-like two-door wagon. Way to go, mdharrell! 
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