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5806 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:03 am
I can't help but wonder what the 1941 Studebaker used for collateral would be worth today...
Yeah..........probably should have kept the car.......
But then, we just never know what the future holds.
Stephen, I'm not aware of any 1946 120/140 aircraft that came out of the factory with anything other than the stock paint scheme. In fact several years later, the 140A's had very few paint schemes other than stock. I suspect it wasn't until the 50's or 60's that the manufactures started varying their paint jobs.
5806 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:03 am
I can't help but wonder what the 1941 Studebaker used for collateral would be worth today...
Yeah..........probably should have kept the car.......
But then, we just never know what the future holds.
Stephen, I'm not aware of any 1946 120/140 aircraft that came out of the factory with anything other than the stock paint scheme. In fact several years later, the 140A's had very few paint schemes other than stock. I suspect it wasn't until the 50's or 60's that the manufactures started varying their paint jobs.
I've seen factory photographs of 1959 Cessna 150's that were still coming out with bare aluminum finish and trim paint. I believe it was in the early 1960's that Cessna started painting the entire airframe. Piper PA-28 Cherokees I believe came with all paint. Several years ago I worked with a student who had a very early s/n Cherokee 140 that still had the original paint and interior from 1962. His uncle purchased it new, and kept it in a heated/air conditioned hanger.
.....BTW I remember as a teenager a Healey 3000 for sale for $250. Not today folks, and I wish I had that car!