He pickled the engine on the plane as it was tied down outside in the Long Island salt air. The atmosphere has caused enough corrosion to make the restoration of the entire a/c economically unfeasible.
Barney, given it doesn't have pitting in the prop flange radius or any other fatal corrosion, I'd take it at the OBO price. I need an engine for Tim Noto's former 150 that I want to get back in the air for IFR training. Tim's engine had corrosion, from being in NY and then Florida, that led me to pull it apart and I've yet to get it back together (had to throw away the crankshaft). Got cash and plenty of frequent flyer miles to get out there to package it for shipping.
