I guess that if a Pantera doesn't have rust it is because it was just recently re-done by someone, which means it costs a lot more. But yeah, there was a guy on here a few months back who said he bought a car for $3500 bucks but it didn't have an engine or transaxle. It seems like it does come up once in awhile.
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