What Does "Reasonable Offer" mean?

While the $7500 may have been way optimistic for the car, an offer of $1500 is a complete insult. If a guy puts an unrealistic price on his car and a "customer" offers something equally insulting, who is the good guy in this deal? Neither.
You'd be better off just politely telling him his price is in line for a finished car (That his car clearly is not) OR just walk away.
I'd be compelled to do the former and make no actual offer. An offer that insults the seller often backfires.
Yep, I did just that. In one of my posts, I mentioned that I drove my 66 up there and told him that it’s been for sale for 2 years for $7500 and no takers. Before I made him an offer I talked to him about the car, asked questions, and told him information about the car that he knew nothing about. Like that the car was originally turquoise and showed him the turquoise paint underneath the flaking black paint job, and the red piece of vinyl just glued right over the original turquoise door panel. And of course told him the reason my offer was low, and offered a negotiation for him to plead his case. As mentioned, I don’t need the car and didn’t want the car, but my out of state young gun friend doesn’t have a lot of money. No big deal in the end, he can keep it in his barn until he dies and his kids can scrap it, that seemed to make him happy.