I'd pay $1500 for it and I might do the same thing. Just get it running and bomb around town with it then maybe sell it someone who wanted to fix it up. Looks super rough so driving it around would most likely become annoying, but it would take so much work to put it back together that I can see the appeal of just leaving it half rotted.
https://www.hotrod.com/articles/barn-find-1968-plymouth-road-runner/