We all know that with a little bit more effort and $$$$, the owner/restorer could have had a nice car worthy of its allegedly low production numbers and a higher price. Instead, they seemed to go for a more modern look with less chrome and one color, which also includes the bumpers (BUT the bumper bolts should have been painted to complete the look!). Obviously less $$ to paint the bumpers than to rechrome them?
The way the lh front seat looks "used", the whole car might have been a basket case that was saved. The seat covers and steering wheel cover might further imply that, too?
Underhood, the heater pipes might clean things up a bit from just bare hoses being strung from connector to connector. They obviously took some time to loom those plug wires, too, so they'd look nice and all if that, rather than find a good set of OEM-spec wires to run where they originally did. But they also fit with the MP aluminum valve covers, rather than some stock chromed covers. Then that air cleaner decal that doesn't fit the cleaner and is the wrong one.
What I see is a lower-budget "resto-mod", without the "resto" part. Playing on the "orig 4-spd 440 car", ultimate performance, orientation.
But it seems that a lot of what's not liked could be fixed, reasonably easily? Chrome bumpers, a well-finessed side stripe to mimic the factory chrome trim that's missing. some new heater hoses, correct plug wires, VN501 15x7s with BFG Radial T/As or 18x7s with BFG Comp radials, get the steering wheel covered in leather, and some better seat covers . . . might make it more worth what the seller perceives it might be worth. Black underhood areas? Just tell the gawkers at the weekend cruises that it was a black car that got painted red . . . until they decode the data plate.
Looking at the auction results, day to day, there was HUMONGOUS amounts of money that changed hands at that auction! Lots of high-level merchandise!
Might not be to everybody's taste, but I concur that it should have found its new home so that it might be what it could be rather than what it is.
Just some thoughts,
CBODY67