I owned that Rotus for a couple years.
The guy has the story a little wrong but close enough. They didn't doo much to it from the looks of it. They put the clamshells back on since I converted it to cycle fenders, they painted it, cleaned it up a bit, added a weird looking airbox onto the carbs, changed the steering wheel and shift knob, cleaned up the wiring that was hanging out from under the dash, (hopefully they rewired the car it was in rough shape electrically), maybe I will just buy it back if its cheap enough. add to my seven collection.