Is small claims court an options for a trade/cash deal gone wrong?

This is a strange situation. I have a buddy that I ran a Facebook barter group with, anyways we traded items a lot and around a year and some change ago I traded him multiple laptops and a TV for a car he had. However since the car was worth a little more than what I was giving him (and he was selling it at the time) we agreed that when he sold it he would give me $2000 for all the items I had given him. Since then he has come up with excuse after excuse of why he hasn't sold the car and has acknowledged that he owes me the money (have lots of emails, facebook messages and texts to show this) but I haven't seen one cent. At one point I even had several buyers lined up for the car but he wouldn't meet with any of them for random reasons. What can I do to get my money? Is small claims court an option? Feeling like I'm kind of screwed...