[patrickt]

When you think how much it originally cost to build that car, and remembering that every one of our cars is essentially a hand built "one-off" job, and then you think that the guy only put 2,500 miles on it, and now wants to dump it, if it were me, I'd want to talk to him. If I were selling the car on his behalf, I would tell him "you know the purchaser will probably want to talk to you," and if the previous owner refuses to chat with the prospective purchaser, there better be a really damn fine reason why. These are very, very unique cars. Each one is different, and some of them are fraught with problems. Personally, I wouldn't touch it without chatting with the man that originally spec'd it out and paid for it to be put together. If he gave me the warm and fuzzy feeling, and I liked the way the car behaved when I drove it, then the cost difference between that car and a custom built ERA would have to be balanced against the year long wait to get the latter.