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Last Chance????

Sun May 18, 2008 11:40 pm

Two guys from Nevada called about my acre lot of Snow crop dusters and three barns of parts. When one asked "How much do you want for the Scrap Airplanes?" I shot him a price off the top of my head.
Tomorrow they are going to accept or make a counter offer.
I did not ask them what they planned to do with the airplanes, engines and WW2 military parts, but I started to wonder, when they kept asking what each airplane and engine weighed.
Here is my dilemma:
Should I sell all that stuff to a couple of guys who will crush it and smelt it, if they agree to my reasonable-but profit making asking price?
Or should I wait for you guys to get off your butts and buy the pile in bits and pieces and in drips and drabs?
I am under some time constraint to liquidate the inventory since the owner of the property wants it off her place within a set period of time.
I bought this stuff as a way of earning a living, of putting the parts back into circulation and to help the widow of the pilot who bought it all in the first place.
Scrapping the metal is not the highest and best use for these parts, but it does achieve two of three of my goals.
If you thought you wanted one of my parts on my photobucket page or saw an add on WIX, please do not procrastinate in contacting me. I can set some stuff aside before the sale, but after the Franklins weigh in my palm, the parts are theirs.
I will of course post their phone numbers (if they wish) and you can contact them after the sale.
I watched an aluminum bailer work over the parts at Hawkins and Powers and have seen what a back hoe can do to a P2V Neptune. It is an ugly sight. This was not the future I had planned for the Snows but in this economy money talks.

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or contact Jim at mrmotomontana@msn.com
Thanks

Mon May 19, 2008 10:52 am

You might find a home for some of those Cub parts here.

Mon May 19, 2008 11:03 am

Are you wanting Warbird prices from Wixer's and pricing it as junk to the scrappers?

Last Chance

Mon May 19, 2008 11:35 am

I am trying to find a happy medium between scrap and warbird prices. I confess to being new to the Warbird world, but sold Harley stuff for years. Same stuff only different size. I told the alleged scrappers (did not ask yet what they plan to do, cause I am not sure I want to know) that I would sell the acre of planes and parts for $15,000. If anyone wants to meet that price, I will help you load it.
As an old parts guy, who helped put rare parts on old motorcycles, I'd prefer to help people finish their projects and make them happy and make me a reasonable return on investment and time spent.
But as an old guy, I don't have 30 years to invest this time around. I would like a quicker disposal of parts so that I can spend more time renovating my house, digging in my garden and riding my old motorcycles.
I still have not called these guys. It is possible I can split off the antique stuff from the crop dusters and come out OK.
Thanks for the J-3 Cub information. It helps to find the right niche for the parts.
If anyone else has a website for different types so that I can target my sales, I would like to know.

Mon May 19, 2008 2:31 pm

Jim- I e-mailed you regarding one item I am interested in-
Thanks!
Robbie
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