Chance to pick up a 225 slant locally...questions

There are slant sixes for sale any where from free to$1000 used. The biggest problem is finding a good inexpensive one, in your area, when you need it. Seems like the good inexpensive ones are always far from the person that needs one. I just picked up two complete truck slants, one a solid lifter engine, and one a hydraulic engine. Both were supposed to be running engines when removed. They were 200 miles from me but the price (free) made it worth the trip.

I waited a couple years before I saw one for sale locally. It's still 100 miles round trip. There was a guy in Arizona with a Super Six and all the trimmings, but ~600 miles round trip.