Ok, it was me : )
The more I kept thinking about it I realized that this might be a good plane for me. I am saving up for a hangar/home and will be selling my 2000 Ovation (glass panel, air conditioning) to help fund it. This will still give me a great airplane which I can gradually turn into the airplane I want it to be.
I had a pre-buy done and went and looked at it myself. It was a one owner with all the records, hangared since day one, 574 TT, etc. Everyone I talked to at the 3 shops that had worked on the airplane said what a great guy that the owner Jaime Fontane was and that N134JF was his baby and he took good care of it. (One example: the logs showed that he had never gone over 25 hours for an oil change, usually about 15 hours.) I got a chance to get to know his widow Lynda and she really wanted it to go to someone who would appreciate it. They had many good trips together in the airplane and it was definitely part of the family. I wish I had known Dr. Fontane. From what I hear he was an incredible guy. (Picture of him below.)
This was his third Mooney. His second one, a 252, was lost in hurricane Andrew. So he ordered this one the way he wanted from Mooney and took delivery in January 1993, with the same paint scheme as his 252.
The compressions were great, all in the 70's, even though it hasn't had the Bravo conversion. I ferried it home non-stop yesterday, and the temperatures were all good. The only way I made it non-stop is because it has the Monroy Long Range tanks, which is an option I had on the other Bravos I owned. They help make the airplane a true cross country machine. Even with 25 kt. headwinds I had plenty of reserve.