I have my own story to tell about this clown too. I live about an hour-and-a-half from Rockford, and in my Friday newspaper one week was a classified ad for a 1980 Cadillac flower car. I recognized the area code as being somewhat local, and since I have a 1980 hearse, I called on it.
I was told "just out of service, runs great, no rust". I said I'd come by tomorrow to see it, and got directions to his "dealership". Well I drove past the place twice trying to find it, looking for his nonexistant dealership, before I turned in at the mailbox with the right address number on it. What he called a dealership, I would call a junkyard. It was a bunch of rusted hulks in a field, some complete with trees growing where the engines should be.
Finally I was lead to the flower car. Maybe it was just out of service, I don't know. Maybe it did run great, I didn't try to actually drive it. I didn't see any obvious rust. Bu what he didn't tell me was that it looked like it had been in a demo derby. There literally was not an undamaged panel on the whole car. Maybe the service it was just out of was someone's using it as a pickup truck beater.
Nonetheless, I figured it didn't hurt to ask the price, thinking it was worth maybe $500-$1000. I darn near fell over in the mud when he said it was $8500, and proceeded to tell me how rare and valuable it is. Out of curiosity, I also asked about a couple of the other cars I had seen sinking into the mud. They were all $7000-$12,000, because, as I was told, they are all antiques.
Needless to say, I left, realizing what a crook this guy is. But there is a postscript to this story...
Literally years later, I was at a car show, and an 80s Cadillac flower car pulled in with dealer license plates on it, so I go over to check it out. Guess what, its the same car, still trying to be sold by the same guy, now it is rusting, and its still $8500.
Go figure.