The car has a bad engine according to the seller whom admits they are not mechanically inclined. Given they selected a salvage yard thousands of miles away tells me they picked the first one that popped up on Google.

I contacted the salvage yard and they didn't have the mileage listed in the cars file. The parts guy put me on hold to " ask one of the guys " . Less than a minute later he replied " 150,000 " . I don't trust those numbers given how the conversation plaid out on a 25 year old engine.

I'm pretty sure this is the same car I was chasing 4 years ago and I sort of recall there may have been issues. ( Person A buys it from E bay and finds it is less than advertised then puts car up listing known faults, person B buys the car 4 years ago. )

In any event I consider the car salvage value and will see if they take an offer just above what a salvage yard would pay otherwise I lose interest.

Thanks