What to do about this rust and bodywork

[Skniper]

It's in Buena Vista. I contacted the seller as the price seemed really enticing at $13k, even before any haggling. I asked if there was any rust and his answer was "zoom in on the pictures" so I figured it was one of those sellers. Didn't get a good vibe so I passed. I can send you the guy's contact info. Here's the FB (pending) ad > 1986 FJ60

Yep, someone posted it in the SAS 10 thread recently, I recognized the garage interior in the pics. That's why I asked OP if he just bought it or was the one selling.

 

[ffcol]

Seems really shady he wouldn't mention the smell. Even if he didn't mind it (people are strange) someone would've had to say something?
@ffcol would you have been a lot more interested had the smell not been a thing?

I would not have bought it due to my perceived amount of rust and potential unseen rust and my inexperience with fixing it or wanting to dedicate my garage to fixing it or paying someone some unknown amount to fix it. I did not even try to talk him down as $13k could be fair to someone who knows what they are doing or even knows what it would cost to fix it up. I wanted something to drive around and not worry about additional rust forming like I had with my 85. The weird thing is my 85 had a small rusted out hole in the rear quarter but the paint was faded so I associated it with rusting due to sitting outside enough the paint faded. That was the only rust it had. This truck had decent enough paint that I could tell, though dirty, and it has way more areas of rust than my 85. My 85 was only about 18 years old when I had it and this has 40 years on it. If I could have taken a screw driver to poke at the rust and bubbles and see how bad it was, it could have swayed me, assuming I would have figured out a way to test drive it with the smell. But obviously, I wasn't going to flake the paint off a vehicle I did not own.