Keep Looking!

You can purchase a lot better (old MB diesel) car for the same, if not less money. We have three and we (my sons and I) have not paid more than $1525 for any one of them - all of them in much better shape that you have described.

Besides, if your in Florida I would suspect that if you strolled down to the West Palm Beach, or Naples area you could find some real creampuffs (w/ records) for 2,500-4,000.

Based on everything you have described wrong with this car - I'm not sure it's even worth $1,000.

Just my opinion.