I hope I don't disappoint you, Matt, but I'm not ready, financially, to embark on a major restoration project. In fact, buying a plane is the last thing I should be doing now.
But, that said, the price is such that I feel like I would be able to, at any time, get out from under the project, even in a hurry if I had to. So, it'll be a slow go, for sure.
Honestly, my biggest motivator was that the seller really had no easy or viable options. The airport administration had terminated the tie-down lease in advance of commercial development on the airport, and time and options were running out.
I feel like I saved a plane from the salvage yard, in a way. I'm going to start with the inexpensive TLC before I delve off into a hundred here, a hundred there...ooh..that's a grand... This is the wrong, nearly the worst timing to buy a plane, but I feel like I'm buying a decent airframe and an engine core. Anything past that is a bonus.
So...I guess I have to borrow Robbie's old tagline..."Eeek! I own two planes!"
