Unless you’ve worked for a car blog in the last few decades you might not know it, but Craigslist is actually the lifeblood of the automotive internet. That isn’t because the site (now sadly almost killed by Facebook Marketplace) is in any way powering the car content you read, rather it’s because the writers and editors responsible for the blogs and reviews are, we’re confident, messing around on CL all the time.
Case in point: Your humble author is supposed to be finishing up a feature on the unhinged Lamborghini Huraćan Sterrato, but instead I’m deep-diving a Craigslist posting for a Ford Model A that’s for sale locally.
I don’t know anything about the Model A. I’ve seen a lot of them running around local car shows, I remember one being featured pretty prominently in a bad King Kong reboot, and Wikipedia tells me that examples were converted into railcars that could carry twelve people. Amazing!
And yet, even that “Jenny railcar” is conceptually tame by comparison with a seller in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2024, claiming that his 94-year-old Ford is a “daily driver.”
“This five window daily driver that runs well.”
We have to imagine the seller means the Ford – with its freshly rebuilt engine and working rear brake light – is capable of starting and driving when you’d like to take a spin. But is there a soul in the Snow Belt states bold enough to drive this classic A, day in and day out, to work and to the grocery store and stuff?
Perhaps, but if that person exists we’re sure he’s 20 years old and dumb (with all due respect).
Readers local to southeast Michigan should feel free to prove us wrong. If you’re daily-ing a car built before WWII, don’t be shy: we’d love to hear from you in the comments below.
Source: Craigslist
