Need some advice?

[3 Squids]

One of my old V's had an '88 150 cross flow and it was an absolute beast. If you can get your hands on a compression tester that'll give you some insight of how the inside of the motor looks. I believe those old cross flows are good with 85+psi. If you could tap on the transom with a hammer to hear for moisture that'd be a good thing to do, just hard to hear it if you have never done it. I just recently got showed how to check it and I'm still unsure I'd get it right. More or less just tap around and listen for different tones. And echoed sound is good whereas a muffled tap is moisture.

Seems like a beautiful boat just depends on what kind of money you'd have in it just in case you did have to do a transom, or repower.