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You and your old man have a metric **** ton of cool **** in that shop! You were rattling off model, year, cost, value of all sorts of random cool ****.InDaShop said:Is the guys name Jim Thompson?
I'm not that big a buff, just got heavily up to speed on the knowledge when I was working on that Merlin engine deal. Dont get me wrong I think they are awesome. Hell I scored a set of P-51 wingtip markers for tailights for my ratrod, and the tank gauge is the P-51 float gauge (I've got a couple of those)
That **** is history that they dont make anymore.
NOOOO SHIAT....whowouldathunkit.P said:Nah, you wouldnt make as much money bro. The good payin A&P jobs are hard to get and the typical A&P makes less than a car mechanic at a good dealership believe it or not. Funny how that works isnt it. You can pull a car over if it has a failure... a plane...
fugged up thing is that there is a cooler engine in that place and it is going to rot too.InDaShop said:P-51 Mustang
More specifically its Rolls Royce's Merlin engine. 60,000 parts in that engine.
1600HP around 12,000ft freaking sick!
I know where one is sitting in a trailer near Paola. I believe it was one from a P-51 that burned in at the Gardner Airport in the early '50s. Dad and I were trying to work a deal to buy and flip it, but the guy went from $3k to $25k. You can only classify it as a core at this point in time. But if you spend about $20-25k on it to get it inspected and re-certed for flight it could go for around $100k. That brings up the big problem, there are only 3 guys in N.A. certified to Re-certify that engine and whos to say they don't say you have a bad engine and you dump it to them, then they flip it back out. Yes, I heard about this happening by two of them. So its a racket. Needless to say that engine is still sitting in a trailer in Kansas collecting dust.
You ever watch the RedBull Air Races with P-51's? http://www.redbullairrace.com/
Now those fuggers are CRAZY. I think they average 1 death per race.
Badass Paul, go get some more pics. You able to get in the cockpit?