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Looks like a typical front end smash. There is usually a small amount of rippling under the front end of the top tube too. Apparently the seller has ridden several thousand miles on it, although why you would chance it on a frame which you know to be bent is beyond me. Would affect toe clearance too.
The only possible remedy is to have the top tube and down tube replaced, but that will cost much more than the frame is worth, and even then reheating the joint crystalizzes the grain structure of the steel and makes it brittle. From experience, the frame will break after another ten or so years and will end up down the scrapyard.
As Mr.C said 'that frame is fucked'.