"They would have taken the money from you if offered."
LOL!!!
You think they'd have taken any money on any terms ?
I think you know better...
And that's why you're bending over backwards now trying to label "success" resulting from the FACT of their patience as a proof of "failure"...
There is no element of what they've accomplished here that can be labelled as "failure"... without that effort being knowing fraud, in my opinion...
Otherwise, your argument boils down to the obvious logical fallacy inherent in discussing looking for anything... as the effort in looking naturally requires you keep looking until you find it...
You keep looking for your car keys... until you find them... which doesn't make your effort in looking a "failure" because you're still looking. And, it doesn't make everything else you've done while looking a failure... because repairing the car, repainting it, putting new tires on it... didn't make the keys appear as if by magic...
For SRSR, it wasn't their car keys they were looking for...
So, they turned down other deals offered by others... which you know for a fact to be true... while being patient in order to get the keys they needed... rather than the useless crap being offered to them by others... that wasn't good enough.
SRSR refused to give their project to the guy offering to tow it away for free to "take it off their hands" ? LOL!!
Instead... they've made steady progress restoring and upgrading that 1950's model...
And, hey, lookie there... someone's made them an offer... that they're not laughing at...