wrecked the svx... 14 years ago

[redlinedeath]

so i sourced a wrx trans found itbs i wanna pick up, started working on the car, got excited, had big plans... then i found out from my brother that when he had the car, he had it carfaxed on his boss's carfax account. i just found this out... VERY recently.

in 1995 when the car had a whoping 4k miles on it, it got in an accident. apperantly it was wrecked pretty bad, my brother had said it was totaled. he bought it in 2006 if your wondering.

he doesnt know the details, but now im afraid to drop money on it. how can i find out if theres any major structural damage? car ran and drove fine before the trans decided to give, it just had really tight steering.

what would you do? give it up? keep working on it? im tempted to not risk it and just get my used sportbike instead, but i absolutely love the car. the only reason i knew it had work done before is because when i started taking the interior out, i found paint marker writing in the interior panels, i chalked that one up to a broken panel inside or something. guess not.

please, any imput would be awesome, im lost here, i absolutely love this thing, and dont want to part with it, but i dont know if im just throwing away money now! does anyone have a carfax account, where i can give you the vin and get more details?