Well, my experience with sight unseen totals.....is you never know, until you tear it down what the cost is going to be...what may look like minor damage can end up going sideways, and in some cases, that is exactly what the car would have done....lol. Good luck on your venture, but once considered totaled or salvage, it will never be anything else....It will be titled that way. Reciprocity with just about every state now, because there were problems with cars showing up all around the Midwest from flooded states east and south. Cars are tracked pretty well now...