I just noticed this car on eBay and I was going to make a post on it. This car was advertised on craigslist last week, I saw the car and drove it last Friday. The seller is not the owner, the owner is some sort of serious legal trouble and may even be in jail so he needs the cash. I think the actual owner is a relative of the seller. The seller knows very little about the car.
I did inform the seller it was NOT a Formula S and that it should have a tach among other things. There was no fender tag either.
But there was a lot of work done to this car, for under $4000 I can't say its a bad deal (bidding over $4500 now). The car was really solid and has a lot of good stuff on it like disc brakes, it drove straight and rode nice. The paint job looks good in the eBay listing but in person it looks like their was very littel prep work done before paint was put on it, like the description says its a 5 out of 10 - about a "25 footer"... and I saw it in the rain! The interior was ok, you could tell most was repainted with a spraybomb, the dash pad should be replaced and it had '65 seats in it. The hood needs the safety latch and the front window doesn't have the piece that fits into the rubber gasket (I just can't remember what it's called right now). It could use at the least some tuning, it's over carbureted and over cammed too. The engine sounds really serious, runs hard over about 2000 RPM but doesn't idle very good and it has a high stall convertor. The shifter will not go into Park either.
I was tempted to get it but I wasn't sure how much it would take to sort out all of the issues to make it a dependable daily driver.
