The motor is out. Via Craigslist I was able to arrange selling all of the ICE components sold to a single buyer. It will be absorbed into another PT Cruiser some day. The car had a 2.4 liter DOHC engine. It is a tight fit with the automatic transmission - I would not want to have to work on one of those.
Most of the stuff that came out before the engine:
And a pic of the engine on its way out:
On the right side of this photo you can see the manual transmission. It has a red adapter plate on it for a test fit. More on that later.