[ARC5] Inflicting Your Collection on Relatives

[Gary Pewitt]

And to think you could buy a completely re-manufactured P-51 called a 
Caviler 2000  for $15,000.00 in the late sixties.  They had a back seat 
added in the radio position and the machine gun bays held luggage.  That 
price, by the way, was the same as a top of the line Ferrari Super 
America.  The P-38 would most likely be worth much more than a P-51 as 
it is considerably more rare.  When I was a teenager living on Lackland 
AFB in the late 50's there  was an F-81 on Display.  That's two P-51s 
stuck together to make an even longer range bomber escort.  Now that 
would -really- be rare.  They also had the one and only XC-199, a 
cargo/troop carrier version of the B-36.  Sure hope the didn't scrap 
it.  There was probably some ARC gear in the B-25 and B-17 on display to 
keep this at least a little on topic. ;-)

73  Gary  N9ZSV




On 7/26/2010 6:02 PM, Roy Morgan wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
>
> ... "Oh, I don't think we will have any trouble getting rid of this
> piece of equipment."
>    
>> He was right.  The hangar held a perfectly preserved Lockheed P-38
>> Lightning.
>>      
>
> I know of a P-51 that was sold about 10 years ago for some 1.5 million
> dollars.  I wonder if the P-38 would be now in that same price range.
>
> Roy
>
>
> Roy Morgan
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