Craigslist day 1: odds are good but...

Not really sure what I expected when I started actually shopping.  Started my search with craigslist, figuring that any ad more than free would be too costly for the seller.  Here's my criteria:

• Clean title
• Searched surrounding areas
• 25 miles from my house
• Max price: $750, min price: a few bucks.

A refresh or two later, I found this candidate:

• Minivan, so it will be practical
• Gushing oil, so getting it home would be a bit of a problem

Called the #, the person who answered said they were selling this for a friend/relative and didn't have much detail about the oil leak. Reading the description, it sounds like the gasket on the oil pan, oil pump or maybe the lines for the oil cooler.  These are all external to the engine, so as long as the owners didn't run the engine dry, chances are this could be a good fixer-upper.  

I've always enjoyed mini-vans.  My current Grand Caravan is an engineering marvel: comfortable, handles well, when on a road-trip I can move the entire family + dog, power a PlayStation, cool the interior to 65 deg on a summer day at 30MPG.  Simply incredible.  But I never heard back from this seller.