[encantotom]

My 1990 (that bill owns now) i found on ebay. it was in new mexico and i was interested in it, but told the owner i would only come look at it if it was removed from ebay. they did, i went and looked at it and bought it.

my selling story is not typical. of course, everything about my 90 was documented online so it was an open book. and i never intended on selling it. when i bought my 02 (which was a surprise to me and darlene) i knew i needed to sell the 90 but as darlene says, she knows i didnt really want to. so, i put a small for sale on the old forum's classifieds. i got a number of inquiries about it from there and from word of mouth through my buddies. i never put it anywhere else. it was before i had gurus up and going.

then with some liberties (i hope it is ok bill) the sale of my old girl to bill happened. bill contacted me. i sent him info. i would guess over the time he was looking at it from afar he had seen many hundreds of pictures. when he bought it i gave him a cd with probably 1000's of pictures of the restoration and all the manuals and files on everything.

he kept asking about it. when i found out he lived in japan i was a little concerned. i checked him out and found that he was a real, reputable and well know guy, (he said he checked me out too). he kept saying he wanted to buy it sight unseen, i kept saying you need to see it and he said he couldnt, so i would send him more pictures of everything i could find wrong with it, and more pictures of everything else. this went on for quite some time.

finally he just called me and told me to stop trying to talk him out of it and he wanted to buy it.

so, the deal was struck. he bought it sight unseen and darlene and i spent a week detailing it inside and out before he arrived. i hope and believe it was prettier in person than in the pictures.

i picked him and a buddy up at the airport, they came and saw it and i went over things and they drove off to colorado.

all of that was 1 year from the time i knew i was going to sell it. but again, i never tried hard.

pricing is a different thing. i believe bill got a very fair deal on it from me and i was happy with what i got. but it was considerably less than i had started it at. but i was like everyone else and thought it was worth more. but, i bought my 02 at the right price so it all turned out good.

thats my story and i am sure i embellished it some, so bill can pipe in as he wishes.

happy saturday

tom