Warbird Information Exchange

Sorry if already been posted but thought someone might be interested.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/3-1940s- ... 2564ff38a3

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Remember, the propeller is only there to keep the pilot cool.If you don't believe me, have it stop and watch the pilot start sweating!

Yeah, it's been floating around for sale for a couple of years. Been mentioned before on here.

Well, that explains why the ad keeps referring to it as an airship...

-Tim

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Keep 'em Flying.

it doesn't seem like too much if you really wanted a p-40. Hense, all the extra money for everything else!

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" I am a nobody in aviation, but somebody to my family."

It's been for sale for a while. No doubt he's had offers. Often people want way more money than for what it is they actually have. It would help if more people watched "American Pickers." Stuff rarely brings what we think it should. THe pickers often have to remind people that they are calling on them, standing on their property." IE, there aren't as many buyers out there as the seller thinks.

Here is another old link showing the same P-40's for sale

http://healeywerks.com/sales/warbirds/

Steve

The parts that are usable in a flyer dont add up to 50 Gs.Remember this thing bounced off the ground rather hard.I have all the parts to make the bird fly again but they are not cheap. Come to think of it nothing is cheap anymore.

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Hang The Expense

What is the story on these airframes??

TIA

There is at least one more still in the swamps down here. I think it is a K.

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Always looking for WW2 Half-Tracks and Parts.

Do you have any more info? A crash report would verify type.

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Hang The Expense

I don't have a report for it. Not postive it's a K but someone on wreckchasers might have the report. I had always assumed it was another N model but I saw a recent reference to it as a K. An airboater offered to sell me the GPS coordinates for 25k. Needless to say I declined. I did find his description of it credible and had heard about it before so i do believe it is real. There is also a Corsair wing out there somewhere near Hastings iirc that had the fuselage unbolted from it and removed.

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Always looking for WW2 Half-Tracks and Parts.

What fun we could have by offering a 5 thousand dollar reward to all his airboat buddies if they can find it and screeeeeeeeeeeeew him in the process.

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Hang The Expense

That sounds like a pretty dirty/underhanded thing to do. he must think it's worth that, just like you think your parts aren't cheap, maybe he thinks his coordinates aren't cheap, sure wouldn't ask any of your buddies to go around your back.

I'd say it's pretty dirty to charge taht much for a relic when it's rotting away without preservation.

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

The water in lakes and swamps down here has tanic acid in it which acts much like saltwater on aluminum. I imagine it
would look about like the one for sale on ebay now if it could be located and extracted. I remember him telling me he stood in the cockpit. This was about 2003.

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Always looking for WW2 Half-Tracks and Parts.