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Category Archive: Craigslist Find

Craigslist Find: A Bizarre “Rat Rod” Creation That Raises The WTF Bar To Previously Unknown Levels

How weird and bad is this thing? The guy who sent the tip didn’t even use his real name. That’s saying something. According to the title, you are looking at a 1978 Honda Civic. According...

Craigslist Find: A 1960 Fiat 500 “Pro Street” Edition – Screw Chad’s Pacer, THIS Is Your Drag Week Ride!

So Chad wants you to buy a turn key, stroker big block Chrysler powered Pacer to hit Drag Week with but I think that is a terrible idea. What you NEED to do is to buy a completely ridiculous car,...

If One Of You BangShifters Buys This Pacer And Takes It On Dragweek We Will Love You Forever

This would be the single coolest car on Drag Week if one of you guys bought it and took it. PLEEAAASSSE someone buy this awesome drag race 1975 Pacer so you can be the cool guy. It’s close to...

Craigslist Find: Would You Pay $12,000 For This Bizarrely Tarted Up Fiero?

This kids, is a Zimmer Quicksilver and back in the 1980s people paid $50,000 for the honor of owning one. We’re not sure if those people were drunk, high, devoid of sight, modern expressionist...

Ponti-Hack: This 1967 GTO Trar Will Probably Drive The Pontiac Contingent Up A Wall

I need to point out that I really like Pontiacs before we get started here because after the Fiero disaster and now this, it seems like I am piling on the most lamented dead GM brand. Such is not the...

Craigslist Find: These “Street Zoomies” Are Totally Perfect And Totally 1970s

Well this is neat! We got tipped off to a Craigslist ad for a set of 1970s-spec “Street Zoomies” and they’re in perfect condition. We have some old magazines that contain ads...

Check Out This 1948 Ford COE Ramp Truck We Found On Craigslist!

Our pal, and epic BangShifter, Dannie Pinard sent this ad for a 1948 COE Ramp Truck to us yesterday with nothing more in the email than “I want this ramp truck…”. We couldn’t...

Craigslist Find: Nutting Finds You The “Class Killer” For The New SCCA Pro Touring Class

If you’re anything like me (And if so, God help you), you’re pretty excited about the new Regional class that the SCCA is looking to establish for old iron: CAM, or “Classic American Muscle”....

For Sale: The Greatest Car Hauler Of All Time….Just A Touch Over A Million Bucks

When you take one of the most rare and iconic custom trucks of all time and turn it into a car hauler, then ask over a million bucks for it, you’ve got the greatest car hauler of all time....

Best Of BangShift 2013: An Alaskan Woman’s GMC Truck Ad To End All Truck Ads

Just when you thought you had seen all the funny Craigslist ads, here comes another from Alaska. Yes, Alaska. As in Anchorage. And we would love to take credit for finding this, but lets face it, we...

Doesn’t The Vehicle In This Craigslist Ad Look Like A Reject From Top Gear? The Real One, Not The Rejects One.

When Brian Dehart sent us the link to this big beast, the very first thing that popped into my head was BBC’s Top Gear. Maybe that’s because I had just been watching the Top Gear Top 41,...

Craigslist Find: A Shorty Nova That Embodies What The Day After Christmas Feels Like

It is the day after Christmas, which means that the kids are going to be playing with their new stuff and lots of people are going to be out and about shopping and trying to “get deals”...

A City Bus We Want To Own, But Can’t Figure Out How To Get Home

I’m into a lot of different gearhead things, but most folks know me as the drag racing, land speed racing, and autocross guy. Well, I also belong to a very small group of guys that send...

We Want This International Truck. It May Be The Greatest Former Box Truck Ever!

When Steve Dunning, aka elkyguy, sent us a tip on an International Truck that was for sale on Craigslist in Seattle we figured it was probably going to be something with a snow plow on it. We had no...