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Originally Posted by Thee_oddball
@ Galway I understand damaged airframes beyond repair...BUT this is just wrong  i understand the massive upkeep and cost but there SHOULD have been another solution
I remember being 17 and seeing this gold car sitting on 4 flat tires in a driveway on my way to work at a gas station for a few months..so i drove past the house one day and saw it was a 69 RAM AIR 3 GTO :0 ...the paint was faded and the rockers were rotted but still i knocked on the door..A guy who was late 50's early 60's answered the door and when i asked about the car he said it belongs to his son who had left it there 2 years ago...he told me give $250 and its yours :0 bear in mind this is 1983  to make a long story short I got into 2 accidents in 2 months state farm would not insure me fOR 10 years after that and i came to find out from the police and people in my town that the car was a legend...one guy even had a pic of it in his wallet from when it was in its prime...I also found out it was not stock and was pushing about 425 horse that of course explains how i got up to 140+MPH and why it would chirp the tires if i punched it at 60MPH
If the USAF had just put those planes in peoples driveways im sure they could have gotten $250 for them |
+1 It hurt to see images like the one you posted WTE_Galway
SAS (A Swedish airline that still exists today) started it's "career" by acquiring a bunch of B-17:s for one (1) dollar each after the war... That was the price for other airlines too and I read somewhere that soon someone realized that as aircraft are always parked with full tanks to avoid moisture in the fuel systems they could buy these gas gulping babies, empty them of the gasoline and sell it - and then let them rot on the backside of some airfield in the bush...
One of the SAS B-17:s
