Wing & A Prayer bar Lancaster Ca..
Sat Aug 04, 2007 11:14 pm
The thread about people asking serial numbers on the relief tube etc got me thinking...
Has anyone on here, or that you know bought any warbird parts from a guy going by the name of "Yoyo" over the past 6 or 7 years? He was owner/bartender at that bar & the stuff he sold & ebayed wasn't his, most of it was mine.
There was a rear fuselage skin from a PR11 Spit, an R2800 Cylinder (NEW!), a cam from some radial that no one was ever able to identify (2 rows of 5 *bumps) but thought to be Navy for some reason.
There was also an R3350 cylinder that belonged to someone else & a bunch of other misc stuff (R2800 ex valves, new, odd bits from Stiletto etc).
At least I got my R2800 Bendix carb out of there before that disappeared....
Has anyone on here, or that you know bought any warbird parts from a guy going by the name of "Yoyo" over the past 6 or 7 years? He was owner/bartender at that bar & the stuff he sold & ebayed wasn't his, most of it was mine.
There was a rear fuselage skin from a PR11 Spit, an R2800 Cylinder (NEW!), a cam from some radial that no one was ever able to identify (2 rows of 5 *bumps) but thought to be Navy for some reason.
There was also an R3350 cylinder that belonged to someone else & a bunch of other misc stuff (R2800 ex valves, new, odd bits from Stiletto etc).
At least I got my R2800 Bendix carb out of there before that disappeared....
Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:31 am
Have you killed the bastid yet? 
Dave
Dave
Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:21 pm
There is a strong chance he'd have a somewhat modified air intake system if I got hold of him. He only ran that bar for a short while, stripped it & cleared off a bit sharpish.
Word did get out not long after the place was stripped & a lot of stuff mysteriously showed up on their backdoor step one morning, but some had already apparently been ebayed... including the Spit skin. I had a matching pair which were hanging in 2 bars on town. The original one at Wing & A Prayer was screwed to the ceiling & remians there. However, the other one was moved from the bar where it hung to Wing & A Prayer & promptly when AWOL before it was bolted down.
The only reason the Stiletto skin is still there is because it was screwed to the wall with tamper-proof screws....
Word did get out not long after the place was stripped & a lot of stuff mysteriously showed up on their backdoor step one morning, but some had already apparently been ebayed... including the Spit skin. I had a matching pair which were hanging in 2 bars on town. The original one at Wing & A Prayer was screwed to the ceiling & remians there. However, the other one was moved from the bar where it hung to Wing & A Prayer & promptly when AWOL before it was bolted down.
The only reason the Stiletto skin is still there is because it was screwed to the wall with tamper-proof screws....