I hardly think it was your car, and even if it was, which i highly doubt, The previous owner was clueless as to what was wrong with the car when I bought it , nor the time and effort to get the car into shape.
So dont flame my post with "been there done that", for if you were the previous owner you certainly had no mechanical knowledge whatsoever.

When I bought the car it ran, but had a blown headgasket, boost leak, bad master cylinder, bad rack, bad ecu, and leaking pwr steering. which have all been replaced, since this car was designed to be a project car.

The car runs and drives well now, and has many things fixed and replaced.
It doesnt need much to get it like new.

I'm moving away, and would rather sell this than my new lexus. lmao.
So enough with bs.