South Bend 9A 644R Advice on purchase?

Update. Called owner and he almost sold it. We came to an understanding but gave me a scare. He did send me a pic of the tooling that will come with it. Steady rest, couple of live and dead centers, looks like a fair amount of cutters, and another 3 jaw. No 4 jaw that I can see or QCTP. Anything you guys see that I should get excited about?
 

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No jaws for the extra chuck, dog driver is a plus, extra lantern tool post, kinda a plus. tailstock wrench, plus.
 
And close up of the ways. May be too much crud to tell the tale.
 

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Steady rest is a good thing, I see a lot of lathes sold without one. You can easily spend $150-200 to get one later, so there is 1/3-1/2 what you are paying right there.

It looks dirty and crusty but actually not bad, buy a bucket of your favorite grease cleaner and it will probably look pretty good when you get done with it. I would suggest telling the seller you will buy it at their price on Saturday barring obvious damage he didn't tell you about. At $450 I don't see you losing money even if it turns out to just be good for parts. I'm not seeing this as just a parts machine.
 
Aaron_W said:
Steady rest is a good thing, I see a lot of lathes sold without one. You can easily spend $150-200 to get one later, so there is 1/3-1/2 what you are paying right there.

It looks dirty and crusty but actually not bad, buy a bucket of your favorite grease cleaner and it will probably look pretty good when you get done with it. I would suggest telling the seller you will buy it at their price on Saturday barring obvious damage he didn't tell you about. At $450 I don't see you losing money even if it turns out to just be good for parts. I'm not seeing this as just a parts machine.
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That’s what I told him. I won’t be negotiating. I’m hoping not parts. Thanks, Aaron
 
Start doing some reading at Vintage machinery in the South Bend section.
Looks like it is a post '45 machine due to switch location.
You will be able to find a build year when you get the serial #.
 
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