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Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:29 am
Sorry if already been posted but thought someone might be interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/3-1940s- ... 2564ff38a3
Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:58 am
Yeah, it's been floating around for sale for a couple of years. Been mentioned before on here.
Tue Jun 28, 2011 12:54 pm
maxum96 wrote:Yeah, it's been floating around for sale for a couple of years.
Well, that explains why the ad keeps referring to it as an airship...
-Tim
Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:27 pm
it doesn't seem like too much if you really wanted a p-40. Hense, all the extra money for everything else!
Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:57 pm
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.
Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:02 pm
Here is another old link showing the same P-40's for sale
http://healeywerks.com/sales/warbirds/Steve
Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:09 pm
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.
Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:27 pm
What is the story on these airframes??
TIA
Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:57 pm
There is at least one more still in the swamps down here. I think it is a K.
Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:24 am
PinecastleAAF wrote:There is at least one more still in the swamps down here. I think it is a K.
Do you have any more info? A crash report would verify type.
Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:04 am
Do you have any more info? A crash report would verify type.
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.
Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:12 pm
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.
Wed Jun 29, 2011 6:34 pm
hang the expense wrote: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.
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.
Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:05 pm
I'd say it's pretty dirty to charge taht much for a relic when it's rotting away without preservation.
Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:23 pm
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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