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| | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 21,746 Likes: 2261 Member/20,000 posts | | Member/20,000 posts Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 21,746 Likes: 2261 | Sad too.....this old gal didn't deserve this....none of them do.  Jim
Cessna 150/150, N2259M - Mighty Mouse
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,272 Likes: 25 Member/2500+posts | | Member/2500+posts Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 4,272 Likes: 25 | Kevin Beckham (post above) will be coming to the sale with me this morning. Wish us luck. 
Life is short, eat dessert first.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 35,557 Likes: 559 DA POOBS Member with 30,000+ posts!! | | DA POOBS Member with 30,000+ posts!! Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 35,557 Likes: 559 | I hate to see stuff like that. It's like watching a family member slowly slip away with a terminal disease. Awful.
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Join the Popular Front for the Reunification of Gondwanaland. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 18,962 Likes: 3 Member/15,000 posts | | Member/15,000 posts Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 18,962 Likes: 3 | If there happens to be a scrap dealer there... outbid him or her... whether you want the plane or not. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 49 Member | | Member Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 49 | | | | | | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,526 Member/5000+posts! | | Member/5000+posts! Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,526 | That is shocking!!!!! I'd like to know the winner of the bidding. I've got a few things to sell.
Wow! 19.5K
Based on that number, GPB could probably get 35K from this chap for his well maintained 150/150.
Kevin, It will be interesting to hear what you guys thought of this plane after having seen it up close. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,706 Likes: 155 Member/2500+posts | | Member/2500+posts Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 2,706 Likes: 155 | That's why you always go to an auction with a "don't care if I do, don't care if I don't" kind of attitude. If you show up really wanting to win the bid, you will pay too much... or way too much if there's somebody else there with the same desire.
N18506 C-150L overhaul project
N5275G C-310A flying ecological disaster
N37BZ fast wrong way 150
N383FM kerosene burning insanity
N55HL you bought a what?
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 35,557 Likes: 559 DA POOBS Member with 30,000+ posts!! | | DA POOBS Member with 30,000+ posts!! Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 35,557 Likes: 559 | I wonder what P.T Barnum would say? $19500????? 
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Join the Popular Front for the Reunification of Gondwanaland. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 18,962 Likes: 3 Member/15,000 posts | | Member/15,000 posts Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 18,962 Likes: 3 | You never can tell! If an A&P bought the bird, a thorough inspection of EVERYTHING might reveal very little wrong with only an investment of time. All we've seen wrong so far is cosmetic. Price is relative. Still sight unseen, what would this low-time bird be worth if it were in annual and had been flown yesterday? Does the price difference really reflect the value of a thorough annual inspection and sign-off?
I do understand the risk. I doubt anything will be found much wrong with the airframe, but the engine could be a total loss (very unlikely) or at least wind up being overhauled due to a rusted cam, and then the owner would have far more invested than could be recouped.
It's a gamble. You win some, you lose some! | | | | | Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 49 Member | | Member Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 49 | Engine oil was gummy. Gas tanks were rusty gas caps were just the lid themselves laying there the chain and retainers were possibly laying in the bottom of the tanks ! An A&P friend of jims was there and noone thought it would sell past 5 grand ! Wow were we shocked | | |
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