Spitfire for sale

[colin m]

Spitfire for sale, shall I send the hat around ?

Spitfire for sale at £2m - Telegraph

[Guest]

just checking change in pocket(eerrrrmmmmm)wife said no as shed isnt big enough

mobear

[colin m]

I asked my wife to guess how much, she estimated about £30,000 !!

[Guest]

yea but ask her about shoes or bling hahahahahahah

[Guest]

I asked my wife to guess how much, she estimated about £30,000 !!

I read somewhere Colin that during WW2 the Falkland islanders raised £30,000 to pay for a Spitfire to be built, so your wife was correct ...70 years ago!

Patrick

[Guest]

Lovely, plenty of space to park it up behind the Tiger I've got on order :hammer:

[Guest]

Certainly get to work quicker but not sure about fuel economy or parking prices...

[Ian M]

70 years ago you could buy three for £30,000!

Ian M

[mossiepilot]

Told the GF about this, she said would they take a £100 deposit and a 834 years at £100 a month.

Mmmmmmm, can only try.:goodluck:

Tony.

Ps that would be £2,001,700 in case you wondered at the odd number of years, He He

[colin m]

I read somewhere Colin that during WW2 the Falkland islanders raised £30,000 to pay for a Spitfire to be built, so your wife was correct ...70 years ago!Patrick

Nice one Patrick, but I'm not telling her she was right - I'll never live it down !

[spanner570]

Colin, just had a look at 'me books'....

A Spitfire cost around £12,000 to build, which today equates to around 1 million quid!

So for your £30.000 you could have had one, your missus one, and money left over for some fuel!

Cheers,

Ron

[colin m]

Well now, £12,000 sounds much more reasonable. However, I wonder what 'modern' state of the art fighter you can get for £1,000,000 these days ?

[Guest]

I thought about putting in a bid but John doesnt do any after market stuff for it.

Keith

[colin m]

1:1 photo etch, it's got to be easier than the 1:72 stuff I've just used !

[stona]

I don't suppose they can do a 'buy one get one free' offer

I think a wartime Spitfire came in at about 12,000 of our British pounds. A lot of organisations and even small nations raised money for them. Tonga paid for three.

Cheers

Steve