I’d fly out there and look at it. If it sucked I’d fly home.
If it was what I wanted I drive it back home. Spend a few hundred bucks on some HF tools (which you'd still have to use when you got home), make sure I had AAA or some other towing service and make a vacation out of it.
My buddy bought a 73 Duster that had been sitting for years. He towed it home, dropped a 4 barrel carb and intake on it and made it run.
Several months later he needed to move, so I flew to California to help him. We loaded up that Duster so much it was almost doing a wheelie. It looked like the Clampetts loaded it up. Loaded the rest of his junk up in his Durango and headed north to Washington.
I did tune it up before we left. But that thing never missed a beat, got 16 MPG fully overloaded and performed flawlessly.
We stopped in Oregon at his parents place to stay the night. Hi mom was panicked it would break down. I laughed and said that car was more reliable than the Jeep she was driving.
Its still going today, except it has a 340 in it, a manual shift 904 with a 9.5 inch PTC converter and 3.92 gears.
I‘d have no fear jumping in that car and driving back to California or even across the country in it right now.