discussion 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

 

[Ian M]

A group of Danish business men raised £38,000 and presented it to Mr Churchill saying that it was to buy three spitfires on the condition of three Danish pilots could fly them. They where named,

BL924 Valdama Atterdag, BL831 Skagen Ind and BL955 Niels Ebbesen, that was the aircraft by the way. They flew under 234sqd.

BL924 was shot down whilst being flown by an American pilot, Fl. Lt Watkins

BL831 was also shot down in the same air battle 24th april 1942. the pilot, Axel Svendsen was never found.

The last one BL955 After being shot lost altitude and hit a power cable flipping it over and ripping a wing off in France, in July 1942. The pilot, Jørgen Thalbitzer was captured after 14 days of running after being reported by a French farmer......

Bit of topic but I thought I would share.

Ian M

 

[stona]

.Bit of topic but I thought I would share.

Ian M

Well I'm glad you did,very interesting.

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

A group of Danish business men raised £38,000 and presented it to Mr Churchill saying that it was to buy three spitfires on the condition of three Danish pilots could fly them. They where named,BL924 Valdama Atterdag, BL831 Skagen Ind and BL955 Niels Ebbesen, that was the aircraft by the way. They flew under 234sqd.

BL924 was shot down whilst being flown by an American pilot, Fl. Lt Watkins

BL831 was also shot down in the same air battle 24th april 1942. the pilot, Axel Svendsen was never found.

The last one BL955 After being shot lost altitude and hit a power cable flipping it over and ripping a wing off in France, in July 1942. The pilot, Jørgen Thalbitzer was captured after 14 days of running after being reported by a French farmer......

Bit of topic but I thought I would share.

Ian M

The Valdemar Attertag Spitfire of one of the versions of the Revell 72nd scale MkV. if I'm not mistaken.

Keith

 

[Ian M]

I believe you are right there Keith.

There is/was also a replica of it in one of the museums in England, Tangmere?

Ian M

 

[Guest]

I dont want to digress further OT but more information here

Keith