That’s hilarious! Our guy also looked at the car for just a few minutes, said it was actually better than expected, took the keys and took off. We met him at the airport and did the transaction in the parking lot. On top of paying us, he had to buy a commercial plane ticket and trust that the car would safely take him for a 20 hour drive. To my mind he was taking a risk that we were defrauding him, but my husband said something about the collectible car community having a certain level of trust. They had communicated by phone and e-mail quite a bit and signed a bill of sale so I suppose if he’d gotten down here and the car didn’t exist or was not as represented he could sue us for his money back, that is, if we actually existed and weren’t some scammer’s creation. I don’t know if scammers are sophisticated enough to pull off something that detailed, my husband had all kinds of pictures of the car, and could talk in detail about it and describe all the work he’d done on it. A scammer would have to have been a vintage BMW aficionado himself to pull it off.
