JimH wrote:
Will be interesting to see what happenes to his vast collection in the coming years. Alot of the stuff has been sitting in more or less "storage" for the last two decades. He keeps hinting at an "Act Three" but hes also getting up there in years. His videos are on youtube are comical, I believe that he has made purchases that hes straight up forgotten about. He has a couple of vids out there where he tours other museums... and every new plane he looks at..."I have one of those, a project, we need to get working on it."
Kermit is an enigma, and I'm sure he reads this forum. He recently did an "unboxing" video of his Lancaster project that was pretty telling towards the end. He said he has no intentions of restoring it and some comment on how people say he should spend his money. I get that...it's not our money, BUT, the warbird collector market is pretty finite. There are collectors that would love to have the P-47 project, the P-38, the Hellcat, the Lanc, the B-17, and so on. The world has changed so much in the last 30 years and we all know these aircraft can't fly forever. By the time these hit the open market (and that is a huge assumption) it may be too late. We all saw what happened to the Paul Allen collection and fortunately it had a positive outcome, maybe that will happen again with KW?
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If he reads here, it would be interesting if he'd consider selling a few, to fund more manageable restoration work and let others restore those sold.
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