I think I said that right, anyway. Just picked up an 82 240D that has a 300D turbo in it, and a manual. Seems to run pretty well, I drove it home on 60 miles of sparsely-traveled state highway. I felt obligated to post a thread and say hello since I'll be searching a lot, and posting a few questions.
I did get a little nervous about the instrument cluster not reading any oil pressure, because that's just not right, but it looks like the oil pressure sender was one of the many things that the swappers (the owners before the guy I got it from) decided not to hook up. I had a couple air-cooled VWs before this, only doing a valve adjustment once a year sounds like a nice change
Overall, the drivetrain seems pretty solid as far as I can tell, drove through city traffic before I got on the highway. Battery is on a charger now since it was low on water and didn't have quite enough oomph to turn it over at 35° outside, but it was pretty close.
Immediate concerns are getting some dash light action, getting the rear driver window up (already done enough searching that I think I can take care of that once I put the battery back in), and resolving and issue with the erratic fuel gauge (I plan to pull the sender and see if it needs cleaning).