I agree with your decision and commend you on your actions. I had a similar experience last May selling my 95 GT 5.0 Mustang 5sp. on Ebay. A father and son team came to see the car, the son was 17 and getting ready to graduate high school, this was to be his graduation present. I started telling grand stories of how easy the back end went off under power, how I almost lost it the first time it stepped out and how with the coil spring setup it was extremely tricky to recover without overcompensating. Then I told them how driving this car in the rain was great practice for tail steering and learning how to drift. I’m not sure they even bid after that.
-Jim