If this car is truly from Lompoc, there is a funny story about this car.
The original person buying the car wanted to buy it to flip it. The forum caught wind of this and called the dealer to yoink the car out from under him. The car was then delisted from Craigslist.
You can read about the drama starting here:
Heres to hoping he gets stuck with it and loses money on it. My gut feeling is that there are impulsive people out there that don't make very measured reactions based on the information in front of them. I could absolutely see someone impulsively buying a GR Corolla with markup (say $5k)...
www.grcorollaforum.com
I'm glad the car went to someone else. Congrats.