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Old July 4th 05, 06:44 PM
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Buy this great 172G so I can roll the money over into another project.
I have been working on it for a dam* year and a half. Keeps me out of
flame wars.

You should see the powder-coated control wheels, what flashy little
darlins they are.

Better description in rec.aviation.marketplace. Pride of the sixties!
She loves mogas too.

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Old July 4th 05, 09:05 PM
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Buy this great 172G so I can roll the money over into another project.
I have been working on it for a dam* year and a half. Keeps me out of
flame wars.


She loves mogas too.



$$,$$$ .....??,???

$27,000?
$79,000?

Give us something to work with.


Montblack
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Old July 4th 05, 11:12 PM
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:05:46 -0500, "Montblack"
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wrote)
[snips]
Buy this great 172G so I can roll the money over into another project.
I have been working on it for a dam* year and a half. Keeps me out of
flame wars.


$$,$$$ .....??,???

$27,000?
$79,000?

Give us something to work with.


Interesting point. I've got some friends who put a Stearman up for sale about
two years ago. They didn't list a price, just "Best Offer", and hardly got a
nibble for an entire year.

They then added a price to the listing...and the plane sold in a week, with
folks pleading to be put on a waiting list if the original buyer backed out.

Ron Wanttaja

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Old July 4th 05, 11:54 PM
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Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:05:46 -0500, "Montblack"
wrote:

wrote)
[snips]
Buy this great 172G so I can roll the money over into another project.
I have been working on it for a dam* year and a half. Keeps me out of
flame wars.


$$,$$$ .....??,???

$27,000?
$79,000?

Give us something to work with.


Interesting point. I've got some friends who put a Stearman up for sale about
two years ago. They didn't list a price, just "Best Offer", and hardly got a
nibble for an entire year.

They then added a price to the listing...and the plane sold in a week, with
folks pleading to be put on a waiting list if the original buyer backed out.

Ron Wanttaja


OK, fair enough. I have started her off at $44,900 and may take a
little less. You wouldn't believe how much money and time you can get
tied up into a li'l ol' 4-place airplane. Besides the great panel and
other goodies proclaimed about this wonderful 172 in
rec.aviation.marketplace, I redid the interior plastic with fiberglas
reinforcements and paloma blanca plastic paint, brightening her up;
installed a new eyebrow and genuine leather glareshield; rebuilt the
fuel selector valve with all new O-rings, and rebuilt the nosewheel
oleo strut with a Cessna seals kit from bottom to top. The shimmy
dampener is one of those new Lord sealed units which doesn't leak like
the original.

And new Millenium cylinder assemblies, of course.

I fly this one and another 172 (whose airframe I also restored) and
just love them. This one is very quiet; it has thick sound-dampening
insulation behind the firewall and in the panels, which keeps the noise
down.

I need a little cash to roll over into a Super Cub project, so can also
sell a Taylorcraft and keep the Cessna, if need be. I have owned and
babied the '46 Taylorcraft since the eighties. So. There may be a
swaggering, manly, macho kind of a guy out there who can fly and land
this ripsnorting high-spirited taildragger.

Now, Ron, I am very unhappy that I am just finding out about that
Stearman. I feel deprived of a chance on the bidding. How much did
she go for?

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Old July 5th 05, 04:16 AM
W P Dixon
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I like those Rip snorting Taylorcrafts! I saw a pretty one Saturday. Red
with black trim...just needed a big "G" on the tail for the dawgs!!!

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech

wrote in message
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Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 15:05:46 -0500, "Montblack"
wrote:

wrote)
[snips]
Buy this great 172G so I can roll the money over into another project.
I have been working on it for a dam* year and a half. Keeps me out of
flame wars.

$$,$$$ .....??,???

$27,000?
$79,000?

Give us something to work with.


Interesting point. I've got some friends who put a Stearman up for sale
about
two years ago. They didn't list a price, just "Best Offer", and hardly
got a
nibble for an entire year.

They then added a price to the listing...and the plane sold in a week,
with
folks pleading to be put on a waiting list if the original buyer backed
out.

Ron Wanttaja


OK, fair enough. I have started her off at $44,900 and may take a
little less. You wouldn't believe how much money and time you can get
tied up into a li'l ol' 4-place airplane. Besides the great panel and
other goodies proclaimed about this wonderful 172 in
rec.aviation.marketplace, I redid the interior plastic with fiberglas
reinforcements and paloma blanca plastic paint, brightening her up;
installed a new eyebrow and genuine leather glareshield; rebuilt the
fuel selector valve with all new O-rings, and rebuilt the nosewheel
oleo strut with a Cessna seals kit from bottom to top. The shimmy
dampener is one of those new Lord sealed units which doesn't leak like
the original.

And new Millenium cylinder assemblies, of course.

I fly this one and another 172 (whose airframe I also restored) and
just love them. This one is very quiet; it has thick sound-dampening
insulation behind the firewall and in the panels, which keeps the noise
down.

I need a little cash to roll over into a Super Cub project, so can also
sell a Taylorcraft and keep the Cessna, if need be. I have owned and
babied the '46 Taylorcraft since the eighties. So. There may be a
swaggering, manly, macho kind of a guy out there who can fly and land
this ripsnorting high-spirited taildragger.

Now, Ron, I am very unhappy that I am just finding out about that
Stearman. I feel deprived of a chance on the bidding. How much did
she go for?


 




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