Same old fiddle and guitar...

Potential customer calls with mid-60s Chevy that he wants help getting started.
Question number one, when was the last time it was running? About one or two years ago. I said one? Or two years? He said I got it about two years ago or so. so you got it two years ago and drove it to where it is now running fine and shut it off? So it was an old man who passed family member told me it was running fine.... So you I've never heard this car run and not only that you have no idea when the last time it ran or in what condition it did run? (The only possible answer) yes.
it's like the same old fiddle and guitar I have to go through when I talk to people. I have to go on this fact-finding Mission or get there and find all the stuff out after it's running and knocking and smoking like an old Pig....
How about the truth?
A couple years ago I stumbled upon this estate sale where this old cat had passed and I got a car for a song and threw it in a friend's Barn a couple years ago and now I want to get it started so I can flip it and make some money....