Well I made the drive down to look at the car. First of all I have to say the owner was very honest about the presentation of the car. It actually looked better in person than it did in the pictures. The paint was slick, the body gaps were good, on the passenger side rear quarter I could see a little filler was used, the rear driver side floorboard had a patch welded in. It did have a couple dime sized bubbles coming up here and there. The engine was quiet, exhaust sounded good. I did some research on the transmission while i was there. It is an A833 not a Saginaw. (Not sure where he got that idea)
When I drove the car, it just didn't drive how I thought it should. It could have possibly been the seats he had in it sat up too high, but it put me in an uncomfortable seating position. The clutch worked well, but there was about 4" of play at the top of the clutch, and sometimes you had to put your foot under it to bring it back to the top. Could that be the spring?
The lowest he would come down to was $8400 on the car. I probably would have gone up to $7500 but I didn't want to lowball him. I could tell he was proud of his car, and he really liked it.
Again thank you all for your advice, I'm still in the market and looking so I'm sure I'll be posting again soon!
