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I just saw this on barnstormers.
http://www.barnstormers.com/ad_detail.php?ID=544611

Nice! $525K Hmmm....what do you think the monthly payments on that would be?

Think he'd take a 150 in trade?

I've got a good buddy who's the chief mechanic for the Yellow Rose B-25. I could get him to do a prebuy for anyone interested.

Andrew,

In 1972 four friends and I looked at buying a B-25 that was in good condition for $10,000. The only problem was that none of us had the $2,000 each we needed. Would have been nice because it was just after that they started filming "Catch-22" and nearly all of the B-25s in the country were used. They were returned to their owners in very good condition.

(I wonder what the heck we would have been able to do with it if we had gotten it. By 1974 there were three of them just sitting at the old South Omaha Airport [no longer exists], somebody had bought them and then went broke.)

It's funny, warbird prices stayed low until about 1980 or so when they suddenly made that tremendous leap (Mustangs went from about $150,000 to a million in nothing flat) - and then have stayed pretty constant ever since. If you had one in about 1978 and sold it after 1982 you could have made a fortune. Otherwise, they haven't kept going up in value.

Then again, the price of admission is probably the cheap part...

Best regards,
Rick

Oh great.




Give Spin Goddess ideas.










Thanks, JIM....








BUDDY...

Poobs,

You are in trouble - that's the hard-nose conversion with all those .50s up front. Catherine can use it to punch right through the bunker like a hot knife through butter.

Better be very nice to her or she might be thinking about picking up another trainer for her operation...

Best regards,
Rick

Rick -


...you're not helping...



I'm doomed.

Rick,

I've heard many stories like the one you described. Talked to one guy who bought a P-51 Surplus in the crate for a couple thousand! Brand new, zero time! To think that they were once sold for less than the scrap metal value! Clearly I was born just a little too late

Mostly though it was guys like you who almost got one, two thousand dollars was still a lot of money back then. Then the supply dried up and someone said....Wait these things are worth a fortune. Just like you said overnight - Boom! a million dollars is just the entry fee. Still I have a dream

My first thought is the tab for fueling that baby up with the price of gas being what it is! We're talking a rocket-sled ride to the poorhouse!

I remember a B-25 named chapter 11. (of the bankruptcy code) I thought that was pretty descriptive.