Yeah, the auction makes it sound like he's a private party, and that the car is located in Virginia. The other ads (as well as the pictures) have the same car on a dealer lot in California. That is exactly why I posted the question here, in hopes that someone might have seen the car advertised somewhere else.

From what's been presented, I would agree that it is a scam by someone trying to phish some money out of an unsuspecting Z-Car lover.

This goes to show the value of a "watermark" on the pictures in the original Ad, as I'm sure this would have made it much more difficult to pull off the scam.

This also ties in Onuthin's post regarding ethics.

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?p=200772#post200772

That post shows that there is a valid reason for people to peruse and even caution others about questionable and outright fraudulent ads. Especially when it can be noted that they are scams, as this one certainly needs to be.

However, with regards to Onuthin's ethics post, and I'll just mention it here, the experience and knowledge of whomever would be out inspecting cars for sale would be a key indicator as to how much weight to assign a negative condition report. This thread is more about the duplicate and false e-bay auction.

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I live about 10 miles from the town and am going to try and see it.

You'll have to keep us updated on this!

anyone google the name? i'm new and noticed this before i subscribed. googled it and the first two links are ebay and this... http://www.oldride.com/classic_cars/519443.html?&CS

I think this is the real owner. seems to know the car better. I think the scammer excluded any mention of scarab because he couldn't tell anyone what it ment. I was looking at this car for 3 days... almost bought it actually.

to the person who lives close...ask him for the adress. bet he wont email back. he has restricted bidding so he can exclude anyone who leaves close enough to come see the car.

-Nick Meyer