I'm sorry, but this time, blunt is appropriate: This seller is a dishonest @$$hole. A completely transparent one (especially to anyone who sees the car in person), but an @$$hole just the same.
While there's nothing wrong in selling a project unibody with repop floorpans, front aprons, and a radiator support in the sale as consolation prizes for all the missing sheet metal DUE to cutting out rust...
...there is nothing honest in
claiming a pile of that description to be "rust free."
If hacking rust off of rough cars constitutes the definition of "rust free" (for those who came from Google via Barrett-Jackson:
No, it isn't), excuse me while I get my air nibbler out and make a few rusty cars more valuable.
If that isn't enough, we get one look at the rear floorpan here. From the brown rust marks around it, this was not only a very rough car to start with, it was bad enough that the rust started spreading to the seat risers. Floorpan rust is normal, seat riser rust suggests that the rust was rather advanced.
I don't even have to guess that the cowl is shot on this car ($450 more in sheet metal that's not included to fix the "rust free" car), unless he was ambitious enough to cut a big hole in it from upside-down (guess what? It's still $450 for the replacement cowl).
Granted, only an idiot would believe the "rust free" claim if they saw this thing in person, but I wouldn't be surprised if this seller is hoping for some sucker to buy it from out of state, sight unseen.
-Kurt
