Holy JEEwillikers!!!

The Thimble Drome series wasn't produced in great quantities, and most didn't survive flight attempts. If I remember correctly, they didn't fly well, if at all. I've never seen the Piper Commanche, so it's probably even more rare than most.

Dr.1 Driver "There's a Hun in the sun!"

That's true of the two plastic planes my parents gave me in the mid-60s.

I did learn how to start the engines. Eventually, one of them flew a balsa plane that I built myself.

I guess other 60s kids have now got enough money to buy a memory, even at a premium price.

Marty

I sure don't have that much! I got the Cox PT-19 (?) trainer one christmas. I was lucky, though as I already learned to fly CL with an Ace Li'l Whizard. You are right. They flew like crap. Usually got them off the ground, one big wingover and straight into the ground!

I have seen the P-40s in Ebay once in a great while and the NIB ones go for between $100 and $200 bucks. I am pretty sure the one I got for Xmas back in '68 or so didnt cost that much. I managed to fly it briefly then it's .049 Baby Bee powered my Li'l Wizard then my Baby Ringmaster kits. We moved and all my CL stuff got left behind. Heh Heh... I have managed to find those kits on Ebay and got a couple of em stashed away just because.

I did not follow the link, but if you are referring to the Comanche, it is a "rare bird"....

One was sold on E-Bay last yr for over $700 US..NOS in the original box...

I understand it flies well, but now even the parts for it are collectors items...They don't fly these any more, toooooo valuable...

Cheers!

Dave

The old Monogram Visible Mustang plastic kit is supposed to be extremely valuable also.

I learned to fly C/L and to operate .049s with the Cox PT-19, too. I thought it was fun to fly, but what did I know back then, at eleven years old. It held up well to all my abuse, and brought me a few extra bucks in a trade for an OSPet.099. Got into R/C shortly thereafter and never went back to ukie (who can blame me?). BTW, I flew a Cox Stuka once-- ghastly blob of junk on the end of the strings, with the engine screaming away and the elevators barely able to stay ahead of the pitch excursions.

Well, the Comanche went for just under TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!!! My fantasy now is to run across one of these at a garage sale, and let the guy 'stiff' me for a whole twenty bucks for it! Dream on!

welll...

I hadda look...

GAWD! Orig box & shipping box!

....and the winner is prolyl giddy about his "find" ! :)

Seriously, what a beaut! I drooled over this when it cost a fortune back in the 60's........ (about 30 bucks I think...anybody remember? )

And I also had the PT-19...and I thought it flew well, only plastic ukie I was ever to (successfully) loop...

Dave

I have a brand new never flown, but started model of this plane for sale. Any interested parties, please email me at Carguy1990 @hotmail.com

And what plane would that be? I really wish people would quote what they are responding to.

On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:39:22 +0000 (UTC), Vance Howard wrote in :

Your wish reminds me of the story of King Canute and the tide:

Henry of Huntingdon, the 12th-century chronicler, tells how C*ut set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not wet his feet and robes; but the tide failed to stop. According to Henry, C*ut leapt backwards and said "Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws." He then hung his gold crown on a crucifix, and never wore it again.

I'm go "Well, the Comanche went for just under TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!!!!! My fantasy now is to run across one of these at a garage sale, and let the guy 'stiff' me for a whole twenty bucks for it! Dream on!"

Marty