Craigslist is the one place you can go that will hold untold mysteries. Behind its stale font and bland UI, the site holds some of the most curious and stupefying objects in existence. Many of these are vehicular, and a few of them are geared toward off-roading. Let’s take a look at the loony ones and see if we can figure out what made them tick.

Up first is a 1969 Nissan Patrol out of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with 84,000 miles. Nissan Patrols were only sold in the U.S. from 1962 to 1969, so this must be one of the lucky last ones to make it through.

Cribbing the Flying Tigers shark mouth and merging it with tricolor desert camo might work on a different rig, but it doesn’t work here, in our opinion.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t so lucky when it came time to do a repaint. Mixing desert camouflage with the shark mouths of the Flying Tigers from WWII, the Japanese-made Patrol is quite a smorgasbord of themes. We’re not sure they work together, but what does work is the vehicle itself.

Per the listing, the seller claims to repaired and maintained several items on the Patrol. These include the brake lines, fuel tank, alternator, taillights, seat covers, and more. Were it not for the exterior, this would certainly be a prized possession to have. The seller has priced it as such, however – $11,000.

Next, we zip all the way across to Seattle, Washington. Here, we found a 1975 GMC Vandura with 46,000 miles on the clock, and asking $12,000.

The paint job on this one is less homage, and more freestyle. White, red, blue, yellow, and black are painted in sectors of the van. Maybe it was to stop rust from spreading, or maybe he was just bored.

The seller states the van received a Pathfinder four-wheel-drive conversion kit at one time. Here’s an ad from the company back when it was big. Photo: Facebook

Nevertheless, there’s more than meets the eye to this GMC. The seller claims it received a Pathfinder four-wheel-drive conversion kit, which was an aftermarket offering from way back when. It also sports an EATON Detroit Truetrac rear limited-slip differential, Weldex back-up camera, rebuilt driveshafts, new transmission, 37.5-gallon fuel cell, and tons more in the way of upgrades.

The seller came into his van (which he calls “Forced March) in 2007, when he drove from Seattle to Pasco, Washington to pick it up. Wonder how he got the name…

The seller has a fastidious log book with all of the maintenance and repairs he’s done to the van. “Everything that I have ever done or learned related to his van is there,” he says in the ad. “Mileage is 46,000 and change.”

The listing eventually devolves into “dramatic Craigslist” territory, where the seller goes for laughs over facts about his van. We’ve seen these before and this one is decent – “Seize your moment, nigh is the time, become one with the legend” – but yeah, they got old after a while.

So these are your choices for this week’s What The Truck. Would you take the Flying Tiger Patrol? Or the souped-up Vandura? Let us know in the comments below.