craigslist finds

[thesameguy]

All those '60s Nova wagons are rare... but not impossible to find!

[Godson]

The SS option was just that. You could option a 4 cyl Nova with the SS option for heavier duty brakes and springs.

[George]

How do you find so many of these? Do you enter search criteria "Weird, Crazy, Cool cars"

Oh, I've had my share of special search words over the years, but lately I just go to the Denver CL, type in 1999 as the maximum year to weed out all the ordinary newer cars we all see plenty of still driving around, and type "rare" in the search field. That's usually all it takes to find some cool stuff. Try it.

I occasionally use dates to further search things that I (and usually others here) like, such as "van" and "wagon" (gets old Dodge Power Wagons as well as station wagons) with 1980 as the maximum year, and I'll look for Fleetwoods now and then, and set both min and max years to 1969 and search "Olds*" to find pl8ster's Cutlass that someday he'll fly out here to buy and then drive home, but usually "rare" does the trick.

Others I've used include obvious ones like "classic", "resto*", "unique", "garage*", and so forth, but here are two others I've had good luck with in the past when I had more time to play around with CL. One is "original", but for this I click on the "search titles only" option. That gets all the "53,000 original miles!" and similar claims and avoids all the discussion of original hubcaps or whatever in the text of the ads. "Miles" in in the title only works too, because I figure with an older upper-year limit, if someone is mentioning mileage in the title, than it's probably a low-mileage and therefore nicer older car.

Another good one has been has been "paint*" with an older maximum year, and not only in the title. This gets original paint, custom paint, needs paint, recently painted, and other things that tend to be more interesting than just scrolling through page after page of ordinary, boring cars. YMMV.

Whatever you search, don't forget to click "include nearby areas".

Here are some from searching "rare" < 1999 and "wagon" < 1980 today.

1976 cadillac milan - $8000



1961 Corvair rampside truck with Airstream style camper - $17000





1959 Plymouth Sport Fury Coupe - $25000





1965 sugar 360 very rare mini car - $6500

Never heard of a Sugar car before. I would have guessed this is a Subaru. Plaid seats are always worth mentioning.



1972 Honda N600 Sedan - $5000



1964 Ford Econoline Van - $3300



1965 Pontiac Catalina 2 door with RARE.. 8 lug Kelsey-Hayes wheels! - $4000





1939 RARE BIG BLOCK HUDSON SUICIDE DOORS HOT ROD - $18500



1968 Chevy Impala wagon - $16000



Volvo ES Sport Wagon 1973 - $25000

Looks like the newer Volvos with this kind of large glass hatchback, if you squint a little...



76 power wagon - $6200



1974 Opel 1900 25,471 miles - $3000

That's my one regret about the Falcon. I don't like the way the early 4-doors look at all, so I bought a 2-door. Wish, however, I'd got a wagon.

1964 Comet Wagon - $5200







Too expensive? Okay...

1963 Falcon wagon - $1500

"Runs."

[George]

1958 Fiat Turismo Veloce - 1200 TV -Transformabile - $48000

"-Long term owner since 1967"





Classic 1958 Chevy 3100 Napco 4X4 - $22000



1962 Ford F 250 unibody 40,000 miles - $5500

"One owner for over 45 years."



1931 Cadillac limo 7 passenger V12 - $59000



1968 Cadillac Fleetwood - $3000

[thesameguy]

Man, that Fleetwood is pretty rough! But I sure wouldn't mind having a 472.

[Random]

The jack-stand hiding behind the front wheel makes me

[dodint]

This thread fills me with hope and joy every time I click on it.

[George]

Nicely said, D. I know what you mean, and that's why I try to give more than I take here, if only in this one thread.

Random, I also wondered about that jackstand. Perhaps it's a rusted-through and collapsed shock tower on that side, and they need to keep the fender from resting on the tire for sales purposes? But under the hood doesn't indicate that.

Yet I did see the bullhorn/PA system speaker and imagined Homer Simpson with his Mr. Microphone telling some hot babes on the sidewalk he'll be back to pick them up later.



Ya know, that ratbag '68 without hubcaps or fender skirts might be just the thing to disperse Illinois Nazis, if one was so inclined.

Spoiler:

[KillerB]

My lack of love for 996s is well-known, but this seems like an unbeatable deal to me, even budgeting for an IMS repair.

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/cto/5722205683.html

[thesameguy]

The mileage is a little low for the price, but not much. When I was in charge of sending 996 ads to my coworker the range for "nice driver" was $12k to $16k, with mileage from around 80k to 120k. This was six to eight months ago, and back then this would have been about a $15k car.

Edit: He since got s big fat bonus for a huge case and it shopping 991.2s.