I loved the R182, Bob. I'm guessing in your instruction you've gotten in some time in one. Nice, throaty idle and fair power. Are you looking at earlier or later (not that there are huge differences)?
Well, the export guy fell through. The broker took him out to the airplane a second time, to look at the log books, and gave him a contract. Seems that he wasn't interested in having anything in writing and he withdrew his offer.