Traded my P-38 for a new car!

[PinecastleAAF]

[Elroy13]

Cool! I wonder if he is the guy that started SoCal Speed Shops?? Drop tank racers!

http://www.so-calspeedshop.com/index.html

[Django]

That rules! I wonder what the running gear is? Those are tiny tires and wheels!

No, Alex Xidias was a B-17 engineer, so I don't know that he would have been on the same base as a P-38, would he?

[Elroy13]

SoCal was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the picture!

[Holedigger]

That's a worse trade than my dad's '57 Chevy 2-door for a Corvair!

[Rogue]

That would make a awesome golfcart to run around the airport.

44-25734 (1st FG) lost Apr 15, 1945. MACR 13800

[PinecastleAAF]

That's a worse trade than my dad's '57 Chevy 2-door for a Corvair!

The high pressure salesman really did it to me. Upside is I will save a lot of gas money.

[Michel Lemieux]

Not to highjack, but.....how about a Corsair drop tank mod /conversion

From Wiki...

The Piper PA-8 Skycycle was a 1940s American single-seat light aircraft designed and built by Piper Aircraft at Lock Haven. Towards the end of 1944 Piper announced a number of aircraft it intended to build after the war. One of these was the PWA-8 (Post War Airplane . An aerodynamic test aircraft was built with the name Cub Cycle and it first flew on 27 August 1944 with a small two cylinder Franklin engine. The Franklin engine was replaced by a 37hp Continental A-40-3 and the aircraft first flew with the Continental engine on 12 September 1944. The Skycycle was a fabric-covered mid-wing single-engined single-seat monoplane with a tailwheel landing gear. The fuselage was produced using a belly fuel tank as used on the F4U Corsair. The Cub Cycle was scrapped and a similar but new aircraft was built with the name Skycycle. The Skycycle first flew on 29 January 1945 using the same Continental engine as the Cub Cycle. The aircraft was further modified in 1945 with a 55hp Lycoming O-145-A2 engine and designated the PA-8 Skycycle. No further examples were built.