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kenlyco · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 656

Anyone seen one of these before?

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

Whatever it was, it must have caused excessive fuel consumption... :cry:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=50171&key=0

Scotty G · **Joined:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:46 pm **Posts:** 134

It didn't cause excessive fuel consumption - just trying to gain more ram air for racing.

ZRX61 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:16 am **Posts:** 2309

Looks like it came from a T6...

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:10 am

Or a camero

kenlyco · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 656

"camero" you got to be a FORD GUY

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:30 am

I am a Dodge and Ford guy. :lol:

kenlyco · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 656

Man, I had a 71 GTX with the Six Pack motor in 1979 that I sold for 2000 bucks :cry:

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:36 am

Oh man. You can buy the hood for that much now.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

Scotty G wrote:

It didn't cause excessive fuel consumption - just trying to gain more ram air for racing.

My mistake. I thought he was only trying to ruin the looks of the aircraft.

P51Mstg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:36 am **Posts:** 1202

I wouldn't complain, in 1979 $2000 was top buck for that GTX........

Now, the Hemi I blew up in the 69 Charger and replaced with a 440 was another story. I bought the car for $1200. Got the replacement engine a few weeks later for $300 . They offered me $50 for the hemi in trade. I put the junked Hemi in a shed on the farm. I sold the non running engine with a hole in the block in the late 1990 for $6500. Now that is scary.....

Of course now, those cars are worth a "lot" (I think supply finally caught up with demand and the new "tribute cars" and the prices are coming back down as fast as they went up).....

Mark H

kenlyco · **Joined:** Sat Dec 08, 2007 11:05 pm **Posts:** 656

Mark, I guess that's how some Warbird owners feel too.I am sure a lot of them who sold them in the 70's are saying the same thing. $$$$ :shock:

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:29 pm

Last time I saw the remains of that a/c was in the late Elmer Ward's hangar at Chino over a decade ago.

T J

skybolt2003 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:05 pm

bdk wrote:

Scotty G wrote:

It didn't cause excessive fuel consumption - just trying to gain more ram air for racing.

My mistake. I thought he was only trying to ruin the looks of the aircraft.

Maybe if he didn't have the scoop he would'a seen the ditches? Seriously though, I don't think I'd want to try land an F8F off-field.

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:54 pm

skybolt2003 wrote:

bdk wrote:

Scotty G wrote:

It didn't cause excessive fuel consumption - just trying to gain more ram air for racing.

My mistake. I thought he was only trying to ruin the looks of the aircraft.

Maybe if he didn't have the scoop he would'a seen the ditches? Seriously though, I don't think I'd want to try land an F8F off-field.

I seem to recall that Sliker ran out of fuel as he tried to land. He then tried to bounce the a/c from the embankment up onto the runway, but ended up knocking his gear straight into it. He flipped upside down and cartwheeled down the runway.

T J

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