The guy is definetly almost admitting "Title Jumping", which is against the law due to taxes that need to be collected from the OWNER of the vehicle. Sure someone can accept the car under those conditions.....but I wouldn't. I would ask the current owner if he would transfer the title to his name and then accept the sale. The car is not an SE but has so many alarms going off (3:42 rear that usually goes with a 4spd as mentioned).....a TH400 tranny? Now it's not a matching numbers car as they only came with TH350's as we all know. The current owner is trying to advertise it "gold edition".....hmmmm. Don't know what he means about this.....but he know it is the code 50 paint.
Here's another thing the gets me with what he states..... "only one owner showing on the title.which mean very possible one owner car." with "73,100 mi the mile the speedo 70,951" don't you think if it was a one owner car it would have near to zero miles on the title?
I wouldn't even consider this car at all. Looks aren't everything.
Well Hammer, we disagree here. First, I'm not sure if there are taxes associated with buying a car in Texas....there certainly are in California. But that could be why he didn't transfer, but that's his problem. The buyer just needs a bill of sale. I had no trouble transferring title on my car when the guy I bought it from didn't change the title over to his name. In fact, I'm glad he didn't. I was able to make a copy of the California title which I wouldn't have had if he changed it over. In the future, I may be able to get the same license plate that was put on the car when it was brought in state in 1979.
On the mileage. I believe the mileage. My formula's interior looked the same as this one when my daughter totaled it. And that was a one owner car with 70K miles. When we bought cars back then, we never thought about not driving them. I drove mine as a daily driver for four or five years then stored it. My oldest daughter then used it as a daily driver for a few years and my youngest daughter the same. Actually, 70K miles is not very many for a 30 year old car.
To me, this car looks a heck of a lot better than some of the cars we see. I'd like it a whole lot better if it had the W72 performance package though.
The problem with the auction is the guy really doesn't know these cars. We have an advantage...we belong to this forum and have learned a whole lot about them. But when I bought my car....back in the day....I had no idea what transmission it had. I didn't know what rear end I had...and don't to this day. I have learned a bunch over the years...much due to the great people on this forum.
