Hi John, I was wonder if you'd chime in on this since the 1800E orginaly came from you at a low sale price

Firstly, I *DO NOT* regret getting rid of the rust trap 1800 ES. I should have just stuck with the 122s models - those are the cars that I really love.

I regret falling for this guy's story when he kept pressing me to include spare parts that I didn't offer in the original sale. I only offered the car and the bodywork pieces to help restore the ES. He got all greedy and kept asking after the knobs engine, AC, instrumentation and FI system. Fortunately I saved all the D-Jet and Brakework for my 122.

Like the fool I am, I went ahead and gave him all the parts that didn't fit on my 122 and then some for no additional cost. I had no idea he was milking me as a free parts supplier for his eBay business.

Previously, I've gotten rid of a few 1800 parts to a worthy chap (an 88.1 Radio Personality) here in St. Louis who flat-out *refused* to take them for free. But that's it. I knew how valuable those parts could be and know what a pain it is to buy each one individually and I wanted to spare a restorer that kind of trouble. I guess that makes me a sucker. A sucker who's been fortunate enough to meet similarly "foolish" people.

I deliberately did not sell those parts on eBay because I didn't want you to feel like I was screwing you over. Similarly, I really felt uneasy licensing and driving that car after you sold it to me for a junk-car price and when I told you I was buying it for parts for my 122S - which I was. The real heart of the old car now beats inside my Amazon.

I guess I just regret that those parts, which represent a lot of time and effort, are getting "pimped" off on eBay when I could have given or traded them them to some of my friends with 1800s. It seems very "unworthy"