[njsteve]

Are you willing to throw away $50K? If not, you need to buy a plane ticket and do the transaction in person, period. Before you do this you contact a shipping company like Intercity and tell them that you need the car picked up on a certain day at a certain location, you may have to pay extra for that, or you can rent a u-haul and trailer and tow it to one of their depots to be loaded there. Either way if you buy it sight unseen you will probably get ripped off. And if you go there and buy it and then let it sit there awaiting pickup, parts will start disappearing from it and then you'll never be able to prove if the parts were stolen during shipping or the seller took them off. Either way you will have a bunch of trouble trying to recover any money. Sorry for the depressing verdict but unfortunately that is the way some people are out there these days.