Offer scrap iron price unless the owner is willing to crank it up for you and let you hear it run, check compression, etc. It would make a real conversation piece in a hotrodded cabover, or something similar. I seem to remember somebody using a marine V-drive unit and mounting one of those engines behind the cab of a big bolt cabover, maybe? Oddball setup, but definitely different!
Jerry

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