If the body is anywhere near as good as it looks in the pics you are in the hard to go too far wrong price range.

Unless his father is deceased I am guessing he got the car because it has some problem that the father does not want to deal with.

The stopped running thing is not a good sign on a diesel.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.