i agree.. my car looked AMAZING in the pics that the same seller sent me. this one doesnt look bad, aside from the disgusting engine bay. if i didnt already know that he's a total liar, i'd recommend it to a friend of mine who's looking for a good fastback.
i paid 22.5K for mine, thinking it was worth every penny. i then started talking to him about mods i wanted to do, and he told me he was quite capable of doing them.
i felt pretty comfortable having him perform them, since he restored the car. allegedly.
well, i coughed up an extra 10K, and when the car got to me, it was spitting every possible fluid out of every possible fitting, and it BARELY idled.
as i started getting further and further into the car, i began to realize several things i had been lied to about.
either the "factory AC" or the "factory console" was not "factory". the console had literally been cut with a jigsaw to clear the AC. one or the other were an afterthought.
the quarters were replaced, after i was assured all panels were original. the driver's door is from a burgandy donor car, which isnt a huge deal, IF you prep it correctly. one should never be able to tell without taking the door apart fully. if it were me, i would have gone FULL respray, getting every possible crevice in said door.
i was told the floors were 100% original.. and i found a patch panel.
i was told there was no bondo, but the NEW quarters were put on in a hurray, apparantly, and theres a pound of mud in each rear wheel arch.
just stuff like that.
if all that stuff was disclosed ahead of time, i probably would have still purchased the car, but i would have offered him a few grand less, to help cover the cost of a repaint and about 100 hours of block sanding. ha!
not a single panel is straight on my car, but if you look at pics, it looks FLAWLESS, aside from crappy body gaps.
i'll be spending the winter straightening the body, and hopefully have it put back together with full respray by the summer.
i just need to find a painter who is as critical as i am.
anyway, i wish anyone who deals with him lots of luck, and hope they have lots of money and patience. or a good lawyer.