Having seen more than my fair share of basket cases that are talked up by
their present owners, and advertised as "good condiction", you may want to
run away - fast.  Sounds like trouble.  That is unless you have a ton of
patience and a lot of money to rebuild the way you want.  That doggie
bathroom stuff alone would scare me off.

I walked away from a '88 GL a few weeks ago.  The only real problem I found
was that the heads needed work.  But the guy selling it said it was "...a
California.." van, never registered in NYS.  Yet it had local radio station
bumper stickers all over the back, and a local town dump sticker on the
rear window.  Hmmmm....

Alan Bosch, aka Ever the Wannabus
Presently:  '92 Passat CL
Formerly:  '69, '71, '73 Bugs, '82 Rabbit L, '82 Rabbit Diesel, '83 GTi,
'88 Fox GL Sport, '94 Jetta III
"...fahn, fahn, fahn, auf der autobahn..."