Well, I recieved pics last night. The car is definitely saveable, but not worth anything even remotely close to what he's asking in it's current condition.
e(vil)Bay pricing strikes again. Guess it's to be expected anymore.
I'm not even going to bother with a counter-offer on the car. We're not even in the same ballpark.
Just from the pics I can see about $6-8K worth of work that needs to be done to make the car "right" and un-do the half-assed repairs that have been done to this point, and $10K + to make it "nice". It's an "OK" driver at the moment. And this is in the mindset of something one would want to keep, not roll over to try and make a profit on.
No sense wasting anymore time on it.
Here's wishing you a better life, old friend.
*sigh*