SBD in Sydney for sale?

[hairy]

I was just having a nosey around on barnstormers and found an ad for an SBD Dauntless project for sale or trade (Most Recent Warbird, Page 3,the ad before the B-29 tail turret for sale) located in Sydney Austrailia. I did not know there were any over there. If this is for real what condition is it in? This is one for Setter maybe.....
http://www.barnstormers.com/listing.php?mode=&total_pages=30&main=Warbird&page=3

[hairy]

AHHHH........I see.


Sooo......does he have enough to be considered a viable project?

[O.P.]

Kinda interesting.....all of the railing against the "greedy" folks and their warbird prices,,,,,,and wanting to trade an SBD project for a Spitfire or P40 project.......It would have to be extremely viable to equal those expectations.....

I honestly wish him luck and I hope it is viable. The SBD is my favorite airplane and it would be cool to see another flyer.

[RMAllnutt]

huh... the ad on Barnstormers now says that the SBD project is sold. Interesting. Anyone know who bought it, as I am sure that a friend of mine would be interested in trading parts to them from his own project?

I wonder if this is the same SBD which was recently depicted in a Flypast magazine news item. I also remember Setter mentioning that a second SBD project was in Australia, so maybe this is a different one. In any event the project sold on very quickly! Where did the project come from I wonder. Must have been liberated from So.Pac. I guess... which makes it's restoration an interesting prospect! Good luck to them indeed.

Cheers,
Richard