Checking if it would be worth buying.

He has been looking for about six months and not found much. Cars outlast the drive trains here since we have little rust problems and the market is dried up as he said earlier.

See, it's pretty much impossible for me to wrap my head around that, because it's the exact opposite situation here. I'll bet I could find a free slant six here a month, whereas cars like that you don't see real often, which is why it would be a horrible shame to part it. But I sure do understand the desperation and therefore the thought.