Hardly worth mentioning, but I see that after I made my initial post above, he revised the Thunderbird auction ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3264407829&category=899 ).

He changed the title, increased the opening bid from $10 to $1000, and lowered the buy-it-now from $1500 to $1000.
Robert