[Hesse James]

In that case I do not understand the seller of the car. Did he want to get rid of the car, or why didn't he waited for buyers paying him the asking price?
So he sold to a professional - he took out maybe 3K.
I can understand your frustration, but your car is standing around the corner - but you don't know yet. Don't put yourself under pressure - I had the same experience - a nice early 77 with rebuild 3.0 SC engine swap everything in very good shape. I wanted to buy but seller gave away to dealer. Two weeks later the same car (I think he paid around 9K) was in some online car sales for 17K EURO! Thats a 100% on top!
OK seller included shipping but thats 1.5K$.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes the others win!