Anyone have $2.6 m lying around the homestead?

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Matt_in_NC
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Anyone have $2.6 m lying around the homestead?

Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:39 pm

I was just gonna ask on here to see if anyone knew the Corsair that was going to be for sale on Provenance, but they must have just posted it...French F4U-5 (F4U-7). Good laaawwwaadd, that's a lotta money!!!
http://www.provenancefightersales.com/vought_f4u5nl.htm My birthday is Friday though...maybe the folks will surprise me!!
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:52 pm

FutureCorsairOwner wrote:
My birthday is Friday though...maybe the folks will surprise me!!


Not so fast there, buster. If your folks "surprised" you that way, you'd keel over with a heart attack so what good would it do ya'? :wink:

Mudge the prescient :twisted:
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:01 pm

If you only have $2.4M handy, make them an offer. In these hard times, you might be able to pick up a bargain like that. :)

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Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:38 pm

Well my birthday is today, so by Friday, you just may be completely out of luck. :lol: Hahaha!
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Re: Anyone have $2.6 m lying around the homestead?

Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:43 pm

FutureCorsairOwner wrote:My birthday is Friday though...maybe the folks will surprise me!!


My birthday is Friday as well. Maybe I'll be surprised with the "mystery" mustang. :lol:
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 3:54 pm

Here's your bargaining ploy... you tell 'em, "Look, if the P-51 Mustang is the Cessna of warbirds doesn't that make the Corsair the Piper Cherokee?"
:rofl: :badpc: :axe:

Sorry, I'm feeling giddy today.

SPANNER the goofy
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$$$$

Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:46 pm

For $2.6 million you ought to at least get a plane whose wings are not bent. Even with that the the Corsair does have it's fans, I think they grew up watching Boyington movies.
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Re: $$$$

Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:09 pm

Bill Greenwood wrote:Even with that the the Corsair does have it's fans, I think they grew up watching Boyington movies.
Was Boyington ever in a movie?
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greg

Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:44 pm

BDK, I could swear I watched the BAA BAA Blacksheep series back in the 70's and my friend and longitme EAA Warbird member John Schafhausen said he flew in the series.
But we could be wrong, just like Global Warming, it could be all a figment of our imagination, proably another Demolib plot.
Taylor Stevenson
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:10 pm

GEEZ...$2.6M!!?!? :shock: :roll:
SPANNERmkV
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:24 pm

But...
Shouldn't the REAL question be...

If it is imported BACK to the USA will the Navy reclaim it and sink it off a reef in Florida so the mussels can appreciate the Historical Importance of this fine airplane BEFORE the Polar Bears all swim South and eat them?
Or lest some Museum get ahold of it?

8)
SPANNER the inflammatory
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I've seen that plane its beautiful---but I'll keep my

Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:34 pm

millions to buy fuel for a L-39 thanks though!
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:14 pm

No, no, no...youse guys. I takes my $2.2M and poicheses da P-47 and still has $400G's for other stuff! Eh? 8)

Oh yeah, about that $2.2M... :oops: Kwap!
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Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:53 pm

Does provenance think they have a scoop!!!! It's been for sale on Barnstormers for a month for $2.6 mil. Remember the thread about the "Grumman" Corsair
Matt_in_NC
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Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:33 pm

If I get it, I'm gonna paint it up in the historically accurate markings that were used in the 1970's television series...just for accuracy's sake. I think Boyington's -7 had autopilot, so I guess I won't have to renovate the cockpit. Seriously though, as long as the wings are bent and the engine's round, I'd be in Hog Heaven...no pun intended.

The wings may be bent, but firewall the throttle, and most of her peers would be smelling what R2800 exhaust smells like!!...and that whistling throught the oil coolers to boot!...she's got it all in my book...

$2.6 does seem a little high though...honestly, more than a P-47? Aren't Thunderbolts a lot more rare in flying condition?
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