Thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it. You are right about the tranny, but again there is no garuntee on the 21.5 car with 50K miles that it won't break either then i'd be up to 24K I could have spent and that just goes on and on I guess. I found this article, seems like a very smart right up on the early 996 engine problems, basically it says only 5-10% were effected by complete failure so that is pretty good odds to me (last line of the article):
996 engine failure. Should you be worried? | Total 911
So 19K is a tad high, that is what I am feeling, I told him I'd give him 18K cash so we are kind of at a stalemate at this point and I'm still looking I guess. He seems like a really nice guy and I hope we put something together, but I'm also one of those "if it is meant to be it will work out" kinda guys.