I drove to PA to see this car from my home in NJ. The car looks very solid, with only a trace of filler by the headlight on the passenger side. Body panels, fenders, floor boards, and trunk appear to be solid as a rock. What i could see of the underside/frame of the car looked to be excellent( very clean and rust free), and almost appeared to have been redone too.Car was repainted( decent job) and there were a few areas with some chips that were sprayed over, but it all seemed sound. Engine compartment is very clean too, and engine appears to be redone, in that all seals look new, engine is clean and seems to have been removed and gone over. However, there was alot of kitty litter under the car, and it seemed like something was leaking. The smell of gas might have been from the engine flooding while they tried to start it. Interior is not perfect, but pretty nice. Dash has all switches and is not cracked. The padding on the dash is a little loose, but that should be an easy fix.
What pissed me off is that I drove over an hour and a half to see the car after talking to the guy selling it, and it wouldn't start. The battery was dead, and they didn't have cables. The battery looked new, but wouldn't crank over the engine. So much for the claim "it starts first time every time".
The real owner showed up to discuss the car with me, and was a car dealer in the area with several dealerships. Kevin Burk, who listed the car is not the owner, but sells alot of motorcycles on ebay and seemed like a decent guy.The real owner got the car at auction, but never titled it himself, just drove it with dealer plates according to him.
There were some rubber trim pieces missing, and the passenger side window cranks didn't work right. ALSO, the driver door was out of alignment,and was bowed in the middle.where it contacted the rocker panel. There was about a 3/8 in gap in the middle as you looked down, and you could see the pavement through the gap. The passenger door sealed tightly.
Top was OK, and glass was pretty decent too.
I'm still undecided as to whether i want to get the car, but for anyone else looking, and knows these cars well, it looks like a very solid car. Their comments about it possibly not being worthy of driving the 100 miles or so from Philadelphia, to North Jersey were not real comforting although they offered to include transporting the car for me.