Equipment
396/325hp, automatic, Radial T/A tires, bucket seats, floor shift, power windows, air conditioning, factory radio.
Condition
#4 Fair
Has visible flaws to the naked eye. Runs fine, but could use mechanical or cosmetic attention.
A California car that got 427 badges for a dealer photo shoot in period but it's a 396. Gifted to the dealer's wife, who then gave it to her mechanic. Paint is faded and there's surface rust poking through in spots, but it's a charming level of patina. The vinyl roof is toast, baked off by the sun. Remarkably good interior other than a sagging headliner. Oxidized underneath but nothing serious. Engine reportedly runs, but no other info as to the mechanical state. Rust bubbles right behind the right rear wheel. This goes to show what years of dry Southern California weather (and intense Southern California sun) can do to a car. You could make an argument that it's too good to restore, and that it would be cooler to just let the dry western climate keep preserving it.
Market commentary
But that argument doesn't hold water, particularly when the headliner peels off onto the occupants' heads. That starts a series of 'while you're at it' decisions and pretty soon it's no longer original, not to mention the rust bubbles (Southern California does have salt air near the coast, and it looks like this Caprice experienced it.) The seller should be very pleased with this result; after getting it home the buyer may not be so pleased.