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Originally Posted by BK911

I have a pretty nice '74 bug.
Almost everything is new or rebuilt.
Dude at work has been trying to buy it for the past several years but we could never come to terms, mainly because I do not want to sell it.
Last year he was diagnosed with cancer.
I told him I would sell the bug for what I had into it, and eat all my labor.
He could not afford that either, so discussions ended.
Now he has been in chemo and just looks horrible.
I agreed to sell him the car at a pretty big loss, because he want to drive it to/from work.
When I went over to talk to him in person, I was devastated at how bad he looks.
And quite frankly I have doubts he could work the clutch and manual steering.
Come to find out, he doesnt want the car for him, he wants to give it to his 16yo grandkid.
When I agreed to take the HUGE loss on the car, it was so he could drive the car and reminisce his high school days.
Not so he could get a good deal on a nice car for his grandkid!
I want the car for my kids!

For the money he is offering, I can find him another bug and I will fix it up and go through it.

Sound reasonable?
Or do I just eat it and move on?

If discussions ended, you have no obligations to sell now. Especially since prices have likely gone up.

If it were me, I would consider just avoiding the issue in hopes it would go away...or offer to help his grandson find/fix a less expensive example to learn on.

Not to be in his business, but if he cannot afford it and has cancer, he/his family could likely better use the money elsewhere. I knew a woman in her 30s that was ill. She did not have much money but began almost addictively spending every penny she got on expensive gifts for nieces/nephews. She deteriorated quickly and became so weak that she could no longer work, but was receiving some sort of disability/workers comp. After she died, we found out second-hand that she had stopped eating and had no money or food in her house.