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Re: Deserving Warbird Wrecks
Posted by Will Fowler on Sun Sep 09, 2001 08:27:04 PM
In reply top Re: Deserving Warbird Wrecks posted by jcw on Sat Sep 08, 2001 11:38:20 AM
JCW, totally agree with your comments, the prices for 'wreaks' are way to high, people with too much money will say "then don't buy one" but at the end of the day that kind of thinking is very silly.
I also think that restoration outfits that want to restore warbirds need to think about their 'charges' labor and what not for aircraft restoration they are very expensive and we have all heard them complaining that things are slowing down for for some of them and they are shutting their doors, but its because they are so bloody expensive, I am glad that places like Romanina are opening their doors and giving people 'other options' too long have Warbird restoration companies had it in 'there favour'and now its time that they rethink their stance on pricing.
Will
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: graham,
: i'm one with 30+ years of activity....you are correct.
: .. it dosn't need to be and should'nt be the preserve of t
: he very wealthy but with their money it just drives the pr
: ice up on the big projects to the point that the average i
: ndividual can't buy in...case in point, the corsair in auk
: land 185K for a lot of patterns and scrap metal.. the cent
: er cection needs a NEW spar so just the spar replacement w
: ill cost 125K+ and then you still need 3000 -4000 hours of
: work just on the center section. the wings are a mess and
: require 3000-4000 hours each and the fus is cut up so bad
: from scrapping on the front half and a PNG corroded hulk
: back half that was stripped of a lot of the formers for th
: e individuals other project that it is nothing more than a
: pattern. when you are done the investment is 800K+ and t
: hat does'nt include ANY of your labor... i'll be in touch
: on the p-40 ..we're looking real seriously at it...
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