Well, it is that moment to please be kind with my time and my thoughts.
This is reality, not a sad story, as actually I have been very happy and pleased to have served you with quality and integrity.
I am a coffee grower, not a parts maker. I do it to provide parts to enthusiasts as me, great and honest work to my guys,
as for me the gain is nil vs. running a farm with 200 people. Come visit!
Only one person still wishes for two more sets. I will produce them, and then will stop production as
none of the others that expressed interest came through with a request, and I will not risk with leftovers.
Only 1 reply out of 6 or 7 interested. Amazing.
The Alfa Romeo bunch require their parts, the Dino guys want theirs, the cars are rising terrifically in value as E9's have,
and if I do not show some effort in their regards, eventually no one will be happy, neither them nor the E9 group.
I really have limited time to comply with all the demand, and dislike not to provide.
My main guy, the genius behind all this great work, is getting old, tired, and has health issues, 40 years of fibreglassing.
One of these days, he will quit, and that will be the end of it all. Personally, I am getting old too and do not want
to invest so many years in training someone else to be as talented. I still have to restore 8 cars, with 3 guys,
well actually 2, as one took off via the 'back door' to the USA, sadly only to be deported in a few months.
Just wished to remind you about the HUGE cost we have undertaken based on your enthusiasm alone.
Realistically...a lower price? Impossible to, as it would be for the sport, and we cannot perform under these conditions.
Imagine, I put my time, engineering, knowledge into it, and charge less than $10 x hour, and yet crickets in the forest.
Please consider I travel with strange parts in my luggage, have to package it, ship it, request payment. That takes time
out my 'free time'. I can very well tell you: you want it, I will ship it from El Salvador, guess the cost?
It really deflates the balloon, or better yet, it pops it.
Eventually, a year down the road, someone will want these console sides, and I will not be able to provide.
We have shelves of parts that everyone wanted, then disappeared. Please look at 2002 faq, and look up " trunk bins"
I still have 1 left from 3 years ago or so.
Don't shoot the retriever while hunting, regretfully it does not work well.
Regards, and thank you, to all the kind and satisfied supporters.
Alberto
