T-33 cockpit on Ebay

viking73 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:24 pm

Check this out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/T-33-T-B ... rtsQ5fGear

Too bad it's missing lots of stuff...

Holedigger · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:47 pm

Just a "FEW" rough edges!!! A lot of work and a lot more parts to find or make and you'd have a cockpit!

Mudge · **Posted:** Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:28 pm

I think I might be able to find somthing I'd rather do with $2500.
IMHO the best thing this guy could do with this piece of junk is take it to his local scrap dealer.

Mudge the frugal :wink:

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:09 am

I thought the tumbleweeds on the floor were a nice touch.

SN

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:35 am

Mudge wrote:

I think
IMHO the best thing this guy could do with this piece of junk is take it to his local scrap dealer.

I beg to differ! This looks like an excellent cockpit project! Just the price is a bit steep. If this would be based in the UK, it would be snapped-up in a heartbeat.

Airplanejunkie · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:04 am

Mudge wrote:

I think I might be able to find somthing I'd rather do with $2500.
IMHO the best thing this guy could do with this piece of junk is take it to his local scrap dealer.

Mudge the frugal :wink:

Awwww...now you've gone and said it. :hide:

Incoming!!!

:wink:

BHawthorne · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:48 pm

Fouga23 wrote:

Mudge wrote:

I think
IMHO the best thing this guy could do with this piece of junk is take it to his local scrap dealer.

I beg to differ! This looks like an excellent cockpit project! Just the price is a bit steep. If this would be based in the UK, it would be snapped-up in a heartbeat.

I talked with him earlier and he's flexible on the price if noone bids on the current auction. His main reason for the price seems to be the 2 ejection seats he's including in the listing. Apparently "collectors" love to pay for those things. I'm gonna try to buy it "by the pound" if the auction falls through and just do it next as a simpit after my F-84F. It's in a location closer than where I picked up the F-84F from actually.

viking73 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:35 am

BHawthorne wrote:

I talked with him earlier and he's flexible on the price if noone bids on the current auction. His main reason for the price seems to be the 2 ejection seats he's including in the listing. Apparently "collectors" love to pay for those things. I'm gonna try to buy it "by the pound" if the auction falls through and just do it next as a simpit after my F-84F. It's in a location closer than where I picked up the F-84F from actually.

Good luck and let us know what happens!

-Derek

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:03 am

I value the seats about $500/600 tops. Hope you get it! Any update on your F-84?

viking73 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:36 am

Fouga23 wrote:

I value the seats about $500/600 tops.

Maybe so Fouga, but when I asked him about the seats he said he was going to start them out at $900!! :shock:

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 12:39 pm

viking73 wrote:

Fouga23 wrote:

I value the seats about $500/600 tops.

Maybe so Fouga, but when I asked him about the seats he said he was going to start them out at $900!! :shock:

Auwch!

BHawthorne · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:25 pm

I'm wondering if the T-33 and the F-84 don't share the same ejection seat. I see no need for me to pick up 2 more of the same seat I have when I could just machine another 1 or 2 based on mine. As this is a simpit, it only needs to look cosmetically the same. Taking the ejection seats out of the equation makes things a heck of a lot cheaper. I think minus the 2 ejection seats that fuselage just got cost effective. Even if the F-84 and T-33 wouldn't be the same, there are much cheaper places to source out those ejection seats later on. The hard piece to find is getting a fuselage. Besides I believe the manufacturers technical drawings on microfilm for the F-84 I have probably has the ejection seat parts listed in it.

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:46 pm

Different seat unfortunately

BHawthorne · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:25 pm

Bummer, still probably a good idea to try and get him to separate the ejection seats from the fuselage purchase. I see T-33 stuff all the time on ebay, so I wouldn't think these seats are that special.

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