Purchasing a car from a private seller. Nightmare.

Kern Dog said
This is a 50+ year old car. The OP lives in the middle of the snow belt. Cars rust there.

I've sold cars to people, given clear descriptions about defects and sometimes STILL get callbacks. One idiot would only text me, not call, about any little thing he found....on a 1978 Trail Duster I sold for $2500. This was a a truck that he liked so much, he bragged about how it was the BEST one he had seen for sale and was amazed that I wanted to sell it. He called one day:
"The heater don't work man...you ripped me off!!!"
He drove over with it and I showed him how to work the STOCK controls.
"Oh...Okay."
No apology, no thank you either.
He texted, bitching about the "exposed wires".
The Problem? A 4 pin trailer wire plug that did not have a cover for 3 of the pins.
I had to block his number. I have never done that before but this idiot was like trying to talk sense to a Liberal....He did not possess the intellect to understand common sense.

I had a fella like that once. He complained about a few things that not only I myself pointed out but also he himself pointed out in which I reminded him to a response of, “Oh” or “Oh yea, that’s right.”

On his forth or city call, I asked him to look at the warranty on the “Sold as is” vehicle. Which I told him was written on the bill
Of sale, where he confirmed it. He said there is no warranty, where I responded, “That is correct!” and hung up the phone never hearing from him again.

Another female making herself a royal pain with her catch line, “Don’t you think you should have sold the car in perfect condition?”
I said “No, I sold a junker to you with the words “As Is” right on the bill of sale after you OK’d it with me in front of 2’other people. I can not foresee a valve cover gasket going bad and leaking 3 weeks after you purchase the car!