ok I sent him an email offering 172, so we can haggle down to 170
even through in the offer of leaving the sale price blank on the title so he could put in a lower price to save on sales tax and asked that if he buys it and the time comes to sell that I be given the first chance to buy it back

which I would indeed like.
If I could get 170k for this and 40k for the NSX Ild be ready to buy a CGT. Ild just have to find the right one and start trying to find when the market will bottom out. It would suck to get a good one at say 275k in todays terms only to find if I waited I could have gotten it a few months later for 225k or so.
Palmy, hows the Atom search coming along?