Post War Heart Break

[Rino]

     Anyone have an extra 10 million dollars lying around?  The USS Olympia needs some TLC.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Olympia_%28C-6%29

[pipz]

The Olympia is just a few miles from my house. One idea was to sink it so divers could "enjoy" it as a artificial reef.

[Arlo]

The Olympia is just a few miles from my house. One idea was to sink it so divers could "enjoy" it as a artificial reef.

Oh .... HELL .... no. 

[Karnak]

Seems the Russians also have a pre-WWI (and Tsushima survivor) left, the armoured cruiser Aurora.

[Mister Fork]

It's sad to see all those aircraft kept but that costs $$$ and for Germany, it needed every scrap dollar it could get its hands on.  Anything serviceable was sold to other countries and anything floating was sold for scrap.

[Randy1]

I think back to all of those W95 games I chunked in the trash can years ago.  Someday.

[J.A.W.]

Seeing all those planes lined up for trashing.. sad..

Worst case is where every last example was scrapped..

The Brits were bad for that, saving enemy types but scrapping all
Tempest, Typhoon & Hornet types 'til none left in Britain..

[Karnak]

One Typhoon at least is left:

[pipz]

Its amazing that only one Typhoon is left. I understand post war that this stuff wasnt highly regarded but you think considering all it did a few would have been saved. I guess that kind of thinking didnt start until years later. Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s all those cool cars would be worth so much years down the road. Newer and better stuff is always coming along and its nothing more than old junk..........

Check this ship out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_cruiser_Georgios_Averof

[J.A.W.]

Yeah, the sole Typhoon survivour left,
& only because, like the surviving Sabre Tempest,
- it wasn't in Blighty when they scrapped all the rest..

The Typhoon was at Wright Field stateside - for evaluation purposes.
 & went to the Smithsonian,who kindly swapped it for a Hurricane,
- when the Brits belatedly realised what they'd so stupidly done..
 
You'd think that the Commonwealth countries whose units operated Typhoons & Tempests at great sacrifice during the war ought to have put their hands up for one,
since they readily accepted Nazi war prize aircraft..

& no DH Hornets - zip zero nada nix - remain, I have had the buzz of climbing up into a rare surviving original Mosquito, that a private collector cleverly saved, when they were getting ready to torch the rest of them - in N.Z..

[BaldEagl]

One Typhoon at least is left:
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Tha Typhie is really pretty sitting there all shined up and stuff.

[Scherf]

Yeah, the sole Typhoon survivour left,
& only because, like the surviving Sabre Tempest,
- it wasn't in Blighty when they scrapped all the rest..

The Typhoon was at Wright Field stateside - for evaluation purposes.
 & went to the Smithsonian,who kindly swapped it for a Hurricane,
- when the Brits belatedly realised what they'd so stupidly done..
 
You'd think that the Commonwealth countries whose units operated Typhoons & Tempests at great sacrifice during the war ought to have put their hands up for one,
since they readily accepted Nazi war prize aircraft..

& no DH Hornets - zip zero nada nix - remain, I have had the buzz of climbing up into a rare surviving original Mosquito, that a private collector cleverly saved, when they were getting ready to torch the rest of them - in N.Z..

Is that one under cover now? IIRC it when he first got it, he had to stack corrugated iron ON it to give it some cover from the (daily) rain.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

A museum not to far from me has a fully refurbished P51 suspended from the ceiling via crane wire. The engine was removed, and is somewhere else in the museum. I'm writing this via mobile device, so if you want to see it google auburn military museum in google images and it should show up. 

[Saxman]

Who would have thought in the 50s and 60s all those cool cars would be worth so much years down the road. Newer and better stuff is always coming along and its nothing more than old junk..........

The reason they're worth so much is precisely because so few of them were preserved.

I was reading a story online about this same phenomenon in regards to comic books. Once people realized the market for rare books, more people started saving them. Now rare books are less rare than they used to be, so the value has plummeted, even on significant books.

If there were hundreds of thousands of 64 Mustangs out there they wouldn't have NEAR the value they do now, which is at the point where you could buy a brand new 2013 GT model for the same you'd spend on an old junker that needs fixing up.

[XxDaSTaRxx]

The P51 I talked about in my earlier post, She is said to be in flight condition...