And My Turn for a Swap Meet Haul---'The Bucket o' Planes'!

Walked into the backside of the mall, and was greeted with this sight:  Two Goldberg Shoestrings with Fox engines, and two Sig Busters---seriously set up for racing with a Rossi and Fox---unceremoniously dumped in a plastic tub.

The guy had rented tables for entire length of the wall...an estate sale...and when I finally caught him he said 50 bucks for the lot, but not including the tub!  Well, a few moments later, the orphans were safely parked in my van.









I'll have some better photos once I'm home and properly thawed out.

Another table had ten beautifully built free flight rubber-powered model, causing me to remember Billy talking about acquiring such planes, so a quick phone call had him connected with the planes' seller.

So, a hundred bucks later, I was loading ten more models into my rapidly crowding van.  Billy was thrilled to have them, and I got my hundred bucks back, so happy times all around!





I was getting ready to bail when the guy with the estate sale got up on a chair and started an impromptu auction...saying he didn't want to take any planes home.  He started the bidding at 10 bucks, and caused a stir when guys saw big classics with 4-stroke engines going for 35-40 bucks.  I had to walk out, not about to adopt anymore hangar queens regardless of the price, and I've never been any good at re-selling stuff.  So, some modelers got themselves some REAL bargains to take home.





No Cox engines to be found, though there were several cute little diesels





Tired and cranky now, and still an hour out from home so, later dudes!

Frostbite Kim