Hi grumpy, I would have to agree with you...this particular machine is probably the saddest looking Scotty I've seen; it would take a "ground up" restoration to bring this old girl "back from the dead". It looks like it has had such a hard life and until it was stripped down, who knows what you may find. And at $300...in the words of the movie "The Castle"...."Tell him he's dreamin' !! ".