I actually got turned off on the car when I noticed that there had been alot of re-painting on the undercarriage/engine bay. Not thurough professional painting, but very cosmetic, dare I say cover-up painting.
I know this is the case because I went back and looked at the original photos I got of the car and compared them to the ones that had been sent to me this week. Sure enough, the engine bay had been cleaned up considerably. For instance, headers that had once showed minor surface rust now looked nice and clean with fresh silver paint.
Classic used-car lot freshening.
Oh, and they have taken the original rallye wheels off and replaced them with a set of 20s that would be at home on a Tahoe. There's another $1000 I would have had to shell out.
Also, the news that it had been passed around so much lately gave me pause...