that guy (seller) is on something....I went and looked at that bike, it was beyond toast. there is not one item on that bike that isnt rusted solid, I mean nothing moves, turns, compresses, nothing... its heavily pitted and pretty much toast. The guy told me he has seen one on ebay for 6,500 and he thinks he has a diamond there and for a couple hours of powder coating I would have a near priceless mini. All he knows mini is the word "rupp" and he said this one is 4 times more expensive. I tried to explain for him to go to OldMiniBikes and see what the masses say it is and get some real world information on what he has, but he knows everything and didnt want to hear anything, he swore it had a honda 100 on it stock. I know it doesnt look that bad in the pictures and I thought the same thing and drove almost 40 miles one way to see it.
I walked away and told him good luck with his sale.
He calls me the next day and asks me how much to powder the frame and I told him it was to far gone for me to invest my time into, he said he was going to cut the rust pitting out and replace and I asked, Your going to build a whole new frame?
If I walked away from it, you know it has to be very very rough, I save a lot of bikes and walked on this one.