Hey, Keeper
Not to worry. David told me how to buy the plans, and I ordered them. They're going to be shipped out tomorrow.
There's an awful lot of balsa pieces in that box. So, my guess is that the kit is complete (or very close to it), but we need the plans with the list of parts to be reasonably sure.
If it checks out, I'm going to put the kit complete with plans on eBay as a package.
There's another big question, though: How to get a shipping box for something that's such an odd-sized box. But I think my neighbor, the artist, will make me one out of a big sheet of cardboard. And whether the original box - dusty and musty after all of these years - is worth keeping. My friend Mo thinks that a lot of people will want the original box, even if it's 50-plus year old cardboard.
But first things first - I have to see if the parts match up with the plans.
PS .. You're just like my father. If you keep everything and you're lucky enough to live to be 86, you, too, can have a basement like ours, with all sorts of vintage treasures :)
Roz