Old man with old car, new here with questions

I have bought more than few crsove the phone.Pics are generally worthless unless the guy is honst and takes closeups of all the bad spots he mentions over the phone. My first question to the seller is" are you a CAR guy (or girl) "?????? If they won't give a cell # to call I forge,t the whole deal.
I went this morning to look at a 72 Dart, bad pics, but only 30 miles way and I have to go that way anyway. Nice body BUT no dash!!!!! He really did not understand about vin tags. I knew it was a no title deal to begin with. BUT!!!
Sellers that come off as evasive are generally a bad deal. An honest person tries hard to be forth coming and give all info as to the good and bad. Any seller tells the good,then I ask about the not good,the BAD!!!!!!! He knows unless a person without a clue and there are those too!!