Oh NO, once I saw Alias Jerk chime in with HITMANINMI's post I knew it was trouble. On the surface it does sound odd that at 39K you'd lose two motors and a trans, but it sounds like someone, actually a couple guys here, know the guy and is like me, babies the car, so like everyone said, why slam the guy if you don't know the situation
As far as your choice of replacement car goes, its a good one as that is one great lookin', reliable car with many upsides, like this
...a little whoring for no apparent reason