I ALMOST had a "spoolin hooligan" moment... BTW, I feel for you.
Even after I was 100% sure my car is a GN, I was thrilled to find the build sheet when replacing the dew sweeps on the doors.
When I first started looking for a GN I too was cruising CL and found what appeared to be a decent '87 GN for $8500 It had 120K, but again, appeared clean. I talked to the seller ( a member on here too) ( BTW a$$hole, if you're reading this, you're a lying cheating scumbag) and he assured me that for the money I won't find a better car.
So we set a date & time.
I called up a friend (also a GOOD member here) told him about it, and he said he'd come with and give it a good inspection. So him, a cashiers check, and me headed off to see it.
We get there, and the seller isn't home yet, but his wife is, tell us "he'll be home shortly" and hands us the keys and tells us to pull it out of the garage. The POS idled rough (like it had a .700 lift/300* duration cam) 1st redflag and puffed some blue smoke at startup, 2nd redflag. We pulled it into the driveway and began looking it over real good. First thing my friend did was pop the trunk to read the SPID codes. I was looking down the body lines & placing a refridgerator magnet all over looking for bondo (that's another story too) when my friend pops his head over the trunk & exclaims "Hey Tom!, this isn't a GN!!!" Really?? I said. Then WTF is it? He said it appears to be a Turbo T cloned into a GN. It was a VIN 7 car though.
I continued to check for bondo, and I found what had to be 10 cans used on this chitheap. I couldn't get the magnet to stick on either door OR either rear quarter. Also in the trunk on the driver side was a HUGE glob of fiberglass. It appeared as though 1/3 of the quarterpanel has rusted through, and it was just 'glassed over instead of using metal. About this time the crook seller came home. He was all nicey nice & asked what we thought of this gem. I boldly told him what I thought of his cloned POS. He argued back that we were full of $hit, and this was a GN!!
My friend pointed out the missing WE2 code, along with other missing codes that a GN would have come standard with. Then this D-bag gets all huffy with us, telling us how any idiot can get a Kirbans book and decipher RPO codes. I barked back at this dink, and told him that he's the idiot for thinking he was gonna scam someone who comes prepared. He then told us how he traded his GN for this "GN". I don't believe him for one second.
We started walking to the truck & he had enough balls to ask "So you don't wanna buy it then?" I told him I'd give hime $1500 for the POS, and kept walking.
I commented on the sellers thread wayyy back when he had it for sale on here, and was nicer about it then. But, that's been 3 years ago now, and here's how I really feel.
