Scary that I read that, I'm going threw something similar to my pace car, I'm at work so I'll write the story out after... but my pace car was written off 2 times but had a clean title..... The vin # didn't match the chasis. The chasis is from a 1979 4cly Mustang from somewhere in the states, and they have no record of this car coming up to Canada. I've been trying to get my money back for a few months and it's been noting but bs but looks like it's going to small claims court. They found 4 different year Mustang parts on the car. It has a 83 hood, and a whole bunch of other crap. They had to take the vin # off my car, and put a new one on it. I'll take picture of it when I get home aswell. Either way, I've been screwed for about $7000 Canadian. Not as much as that guy, but I'm only 18 with alot of my money sunk into this car. I expect to get all my money back, but the police are involved now, and having the car towed to get checked and everything else comes out of my pocket.
Lesson to be learned, don't buy cars from auctions.
-Sam.