'65 Valiant Convertible: Mostly ignored for over 20 years

In the email, I offered up 2 scenerios. I could do the body and paint and tow it back to him to finish at his place or I could bring the car back as it was and pay him for the parts I sold. It took a couple of days but when he responded, he admitted that he must have heard me wrong and he still thought that the deal was that we would build the car together at my place. He admitted that even if painted, he would never be able to assemble the car and get it done on his own so he had a 3rd option: For me to pay him and keep the car.
I took him up on his offer.
That was January 2016.