Big bad ugly first annual

I'm not sleeping after getting the report grounding my Luscombe 8A
after its first annual as my plane. All the advise about a pre-buy
inspection is true! I thought my plane was too to do that at a long
distance. (My plane came from Georgia, I'm in California). The outboard
five feet of the wings and the tailwheel were assembled with
non-structural pop rivets. I'm lucky the ferry pilot made it here. I
expected some "old plane" problems, not thousands of dollars in
substandard repairs. I have contacted the previous owner and am hoping
to work something out. Has anyone experienced something like this? How
did you deal with this?

Linda
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