I am the one who had a friend inspect the car, and I actually got the seller to talk briefly on the phone. He said the process is taking too much of his time so getting info directly from him has been very difficult. His own words were it was a NY car and it had a lot of rust. They did not replace panels like the rockers, they patched everything, rockers, doors, quarters, fenders, etc. The inner fenders were bad enough to have to replace completely. Underside of the hood shows red around the edges of the inner hood and many chips on front fenders show white paint, don't know original color but it wasn't black. Worst part is there is no vin visable, vin plate is missing, vin stamped in the firewall either has been ground off or has an eighth of an inch of bed liner covering it, nothing on the steering column cover or on the dash front edge where it meets the windshield. I asked the gunk be removed to show the vin but owner is out of town until next week so don't know if it will happen. Bed liner in heavy coats like the car has all over is very hard to remove, nothing but something like Aircraft Stripper will probably touch it and there is a lot to remove. All that stuff in the trunk probably covers surface pitting. So really no telling when the rust will start popping out on the paint with so many patches. There really is bedliner everywhere, even on the inner floors and the surface of the firewall, behind the glove box and fuse box door which is missing. Heavy scratches in the paint on the top along with all the rest would indicate to me a full repaint will be necessary, to do it right of course a full strip to find all the bondo.
Front steering/suspension has been covered on the forum and confirmed by my friend as being really appallingly done with the rack and pinion unit being in the wrong place. Its really pretty in the pics as are most cars on ebay, and the interior is leather and very nice other than the deletion of the wood, not sure what they replaced it with. Console does nothing for me but that's just my opinion, and my overall opinion is stay away unless you have a lot of time and skill or just a lot of money. Or buy it, fix the steering and drive it as it is, not the first heavy handed resto mod done to one of our ever diminishing supply of coupes. The seller doesn't honestly seem stupid enough to try four different mechanics and sinking $90k into the car, but he does sound a bit slippery. He did refuse to drive it anywhere for a ppi so my friend had to go to where the car was stored. A drive was not allowed, no plates or insurance or some such excuse. Listened to the engine on the phone and its really silent, he was able to drive it back and forth in the garage so drivetrain might be alright, but if you possibly can see the car for yourself and try to get him to let you drive it. Good luck, all.