If you buy a rusty car from the east, south-east and can't do the work yourself, hitting $20,000 just to restore the body and paint, can and does happen.
You can save thousands of dollars by buying a west coast car and having it shipped east.
This is true.....and even a some what clean west coast ride is going to cost some $$ for body & paint. Our car came from the desert of CA, still needed both lower quarters replaced along with a trunk extension....factory put big blobs of sealer between them allowing lakes to form. By the time we bought all the gaskets, new glass had the trim buffed we were over 10k. Mind you, EZ did a ton of stuff, insides of doors are painted, window linkages, entire car was painted....and looks very nice..
