[soundman98]

Originally Posted by JeffZZZ

Thank you.

Yes I know I can't fully trust anyone. Do you think the pre-purchase inspection can find out whether the car was modified?

i better addressed that in your other thread.

https://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=145931

Originally Posted by soundman98

i would prefer the one without any mods. but the real deciding factor is how the mods were done--the one with no mods could have been hacked to pieces and restored just enough back to stock to look pretty for resale. if there was an aftermarket radio, did they just go at the wires with a hatchet, or did they research and locate a proper plug-in connector? did their aftermarket exhaust not fit, so they bodged it in with a hack welder, or did they get the proper fittings?

there's a right way and a wrong way to modify a car for the long term. you need to decide if the previous owner hacked it into their own vision of the ideal for just a temporary project, or if they did things to stick around properly, or if they modified it in such a way that they were mindful of the next owner.