Depends on your desire and aspirations.
This may not be a good fit for you ("I am not too mechanically inclined.") as it requires at the least more than a minimum of technical mechanical know-how and facility. Do you have a good place to work on it? Tool set? Time?
"Sure I can change brakes, oil, basic things, and even that I’m cursing the whole way through." That threw a red flag for me. There will be frustrations and stumbles. Why put yourself through the agony from the get-go?
Some parts are in fact getting hard to source (head gasket, thermostatic waxstat, etc.)
You could do an easy test to see if the engine might be intact inside. Put a 27mm socket on the crankshaft pulley bolt and with a long ratchet or breaker bar rotate it a few rotations, feeling for valve-piston interferences.
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1985 744 gle d24t
1985 745 gle d24t
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