I got taken on my 2nd car ever bought which was a '68 Coupe....but not since then. I was 17 and learned a lot from that experience. I never believe what the seller tells me unless I see it first hand and I've only every been proven wrong once when a guy told me a '65 Coupe I bought had a brand new engine in it....the car was covered in tree droppings and I thought "Yeah right" but it was cheap so I didn't car....sure enough I pulled a valve cover and that engine was SPOTLESS inside....but that's the only time someone told me that and it was true.
I think $1500 for a loss is not that bad considering it could be far worse and I've seen people get taken for much more. Nobody wants to take a loss at any point so the smaller the better. I would never take someone for their word that an '89 model was "mint"....that word is open to too many different interpretations depending on each person's definition of "mint".
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