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The car would have gone up to at least where it is if the seller had honestly described the car too. If you look at the right front wheel well closeup it appears that there may be some improperly sanded bondo on the lower part of the front edge of the sill(just above where it curves to the underside of the sills).
The seller may have been misled by the PO too, and could be unwilling to face the fact he/she paid too much for the car and isn't going to get it back.
Honestly, it looks like a nice car. I wouldn't buy it from this seller, but if I had it, I'd keep it.
 
Yeah, that was what I meant, low mileage status isn't worth all the BS. He's getting real defensive now in the Q&A section. Why does he post those? They are not helping his case! I wonder what his reserve is? Did he pay 5K thinking he could pass it off as a low mileage museum piece for $10K? Who knows.
 
The 2 posts to him that I made were down right rudely answered. Don't know whats up with the guy but do know I don't trust him any farther than I can throw an elephant. Trust any dealing to be a headache. Do agree that the car is about at the price its worth unless he's managed to hide some bondo. (Where's the photo's of the underside?)
KA.
 
Maybe he got taken when he bought, truly thought it was legit miles. Although judging by the description and his attitude I doubt it.
 
I just sent him a message, used all available characters in the messagebox.
I guess we will see if he posts it...
 
I sent him one too, trying to be nice. It is just too much to swallow that all this was done to a car before it even reached 10,000 miles. Not impossible but extremely unlikely and at that point it is moot; low miles usually equates to originality; a highly butchered low mileage car is no more valuable than a more stock high mileage one. It obvious it is a bit "changed" so what does mileage even matter anymore? He should give up on the originality schtick.
 
I'm thinking he's a wheeler dealer who bought it with the plan to make a fast buck and got ripped as bad as he was hoping to rip the next guy. If he was experienced with the e-bay thing he would have tryed to be a little less obvious in the listing and would have only posted the favorable questions! Ain't that the way its usually done!! Anyone know where there's a nice 65 66 from some one a guy can trust!!?
KA.
 
I'm a little surprised also that he made the questions public, as they show a lot of skepticism about the car. Again, an example of something less than brilliant marketing.

There was a beat-up Volvo 1800es on ebay a few weeks ago with a starting bid of $20K, and reserve higher. (It actually got one bid at that level, but, fortunately for the fool who bid on it, it didn't make reserve.) The owner posted an addition to his add, telling people to stop sending him emails saying it was overpriced. Apparently it didn't occur to him that, by doing so, he told all his potential customers that many people thought his pricing was too high!

It's a wonder that any of these things sell.
 
Mismatched fenders, broke speedo, broke tach, wrong engine color which leads to this lie:

"Fresh tuneup"/"engine painted by mech. who did tuneup"/paint OBVIOUSLY not "fresh"

Zero feedback

This guy is a scammer.
 
I have a question (or two).

Since there appears to be a radio aerial at the aft end of the right wing, where, one wonders, it the radio?

Howinthehell do you break the spoke on the steering wheel getting out of the car?

How does he explain the mangled front bumper if it's "never been hit", or, " my car has been wreaked ".

I do like the fawning question..."This car is amazing! I have had and sold low...."

Wonder how much he paid his brother-in-law to put that up?

Maybe the aerial came with the replacement right wing?
 
I think they all came with the aerial even if they didn't have the radio. All of my spridgets have the aerial but non of them had radios in them.
 
None on my MK2 Sprite.
When (or if) did they start putting the aerial on as standard equipment?
The seller clearly has much to learn and no willingness for the task.
 
Okay that made me go back and check. My 65 has the aerial and my 66 does not, neither have a radio. My 69 and 74 both have aerials. I must be wrong about it being standard more like random.
 
So, an early wing with the late antenna or vice-versa?
 
A few years back there was a beautiful MKIV Sprite on ebay that the seller stated the car had under 5,000 miles. It was in great shape and sold by a well known dealer in Portland OR. The condition of the car matched the claim and seller included good photos which backed up the statement.
 
Ya know, for 9K, it should have the original tyres.
Looks like radials...hard to read the words.....

See the "bodywork" in the wheel opening, at the bottom of the RF wing?

How about the brown wheel paint.....including the weights?
Did you notice the buffed off corrosion on the left door latch assembly of the open Left Door?
 
Let's take another look at that bubblegum under the paint:

bondo.jpg
 
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