Highly entertaining, but poignant. The fellow is clearly unbalanced. Bi-polar or Schizoid with grandiosity and paranoid affect.
One thing I'll add. We, as preservers of the past have every right to express our horror and indignation when one of these undertakers strips a perfectly viable machine for naught more than lucre. However they try to disguise it.
This is all too common in the antique auto world as well.
So, to paraphrase Herrman Goering: When I hear the word dis-assembler, I reach for my Browning.