Thanks Richard for your input and Jack for the link to your Champ restoration! Obviously you both know your way around an Austin Champ.
Price is the main factor at this point. Don't want to insult anybody with a low-ball offer, but the owner needs to be educated on what he has, and what it is really worth.
I will get the serial numbers from both, and post them. The story is that someone bought five of these surplus from Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, Texas many years ago. I've seen another listed for sale in Central Texas, so it may be one of the five.
Lynn, forgot to repond to your question from post #4: No Dodges on the property that I saw. The truck next to the Champ was a late-50's Ford.
Thanks again, David