Texas YouTuber buys dream car sight unseen from junkyard then discovers why no one else wanted it

This Texas YouTuber bought his dream car sight unseen from a junkyard, but quickly realized why no one else wanted it.

For one thing, it didn’t start at first and needed to be loaded onto a trailer with a forklift.

But spotting an oil leak was the real red flag here.

Let’s just say Corey Funk had quite the situation on his hands.

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This dream car from a junkyard soon became a nightmare

Corey Funk had gotten his hands on a Corvette from a junkyard sight unseen.

It’s always a big risk to do this, but it can sometimes pay off.

However, Funk may have been kicking himself a bit after seeing what he’d landed himself.

The car needed to be lifted into the trailer by a forklift, which is never a good start.

But back at his workshop, things got even worse.

“The seats were broken, and worst of all, it had an oil leak,” he said.

That’s never good.

There was only one thing for it – time to look underneath the car and see what the root of the problem was.

“Once we got underneath the car to see where the oil leak was coming from, we found out there was a hole under the motor,” Funk explained.

“After looking at it long enough, we realized this was unfixable with the motor inside the car.

“When pulling the motor, you have to pull off everything around it that’s attached to it.

“But this is when we were really able to see the damage that this motor had.”

At this point, it wasn’t entirely clear if the motor would be an easy fix.

But one thing was for sure – this was definitely a roadblock to getting the car up and running again.

Buying a car sight unseen – always a risky move

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen someone take a gamble by buying a car sight unseen.

One man bought a Fiat 500 Abarth for less than $2,000, but realized he’d gotten more than he bargained for.

The guys who attempted to fix a $1,000 Mitsubishi from eBay faced an uphill struggle, too, as did the ones who picked up a Civic with something bad lurking in its trunk.

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