My wife picked up the same outfit only with an automatic about 150,000 miles back and it runs sweet. We still get around 35 mpg with it, it's a lil doggy in the winter to start when we get into the minus digits but that's what the block heater is for. She paid $1500 for it and it's been well worth it...when she first looked at it it had been parked out in the San Juan islands for 2 years and was covered in moss. She dropped a new battery in it and it fired right up. I've rebuilt the brakes, put new glow plugs into it and replaced the vacuum pump other than that no troubles whatsoever although the PO did a lil electrical cobbling on it. Oh and new block heater tomorrow...and that's it. When my wife was commuting with it at sea-level she was getting in the high 30's mpg. If the engine is mechanically sound and very little wrong with it...I'd take the dern thing. For that matter...if I had the money to drop I'd ask ya for the phone number....lol.

Jim