May purchase 65 Barracuda

In my value research I have found 65's that have sold for the low to mid $20's. Of course they are very, very nice. I expected this out of this car. The exterior and interior show that well it's when I saw the engine compartment that convinced me that this is a $15000 car. Not that there was any real big issues but enough to tell me the car wasn't a pampered all original car. In my opinion in order for a 65 Barracuda to be worth $25k it has to be a near perfect ORIGINAL example, not concours but close. Hagerty has this valued at $35K in concours condition.
If the engine compartment would have looked just as delivered in terms of equipment I probably would be interested but things like original air cleaner missing, Chinese HEI distributor, funky simulated braided hoses etc killed it. Not being an "S" didn't help either.
Although I would still like to have it since it's a 4 speed with 4 bbl engine but not at that trade value.