If you can't get the car in a year, why buy it? How many opportunities could there have been in 340 days to drive out and get it? Excuses - everyone has them. You've taken advantage of his good graces for long enough. You made a deal, stand up to it. Your year is up. And bringing your son's unfortunate illness into it was absolutely the lowest thing you could do. At least until you commented on his heart attack being his personal issue. That was a new low. I have no sympathy for you. Go get the car or stop whining. As you said ... be a man.