I hung a model B-24 in my garage…

[G0ALY]

I bought this wrecked RC B-24 Liberator at a local auction for $10. It has a 8 foot wingspan and 4 gas engines. It will never fly again, but I pieced it back together to display.





CHEERS! goaly

[Spikes]

Such an awesome and unique garage you have Goaly, it is damn close to being a museum. Cheers!

[DubiousKB]

I was thinking the same thing. Nice pilot-cave... Very cool. 

[G0ALY]

Thanks, I find most of the items at local auctions, I help them out when they need an extra hand.  So I get to talk to the people who are selling their stuff.

 I heard the story about the hunt that got this deer, so I bought it for $25, and it road around propped up in the passenger seat of my car for a couple weeks. (The wife was not impressed.) But I find his necklace most interesting.  A Vietnam Vet who had an auction showed me this chain made out of the bail-tops from German beer bottles.  He said he saved the top from every beer that he drank during a leave to Germany.  I bought them for a couple of bucks and put them on the deer.  The white item in the frame is a hula skirt made form parachute cord during WWII… Odd stuff.



There is a website called Auctionzip.com. You enter your address and it lists the auctions in your area. I use keyword searches such as “Airplane” and “Propeller” to find a lot of these items.

[BBQsam]

Great garage there goaly!   I notice the sheet metal to left of the deer, looks like something from an aircraft.  Story?

Thanks for the pics.  <Salute> Memorial Day.

[Kanth]

Nice find! I agree that is a cool garage 

[Meatwad]

Need a video tour of the garage 

[HPriller]

 

That thing is a beauty.  At $10 a steal of a deal.   Since it'd never fly again, I'd change the props to a something more scale looking (4 bladed painted black) if you have extras of the props it uses you could just cut out the middle and affix 2 together crossways.  At any rate that's quite a find, what kind of engines did it use anyway?

[G0ALY]

I have no idea about the engines. So I went out climbed a ladder and pulled a prop & cowl to get a peek at one…  I still don’t know anything other than it appears this plane sat in storage for some time after the crash.  The photo also shows I didn’t spend much time cleaning it.



From one of last week’s auctions (there were 3!)  I helped clean out the house of a WWII vet who was 93 when he passed.  In the garage we found he had started making P51 Whirligigs. I bought this lot for $5 It included his patterns. I’m going to finish one of the Mustangs and mount it on the fence out back.  I may use a modern plastic prop on it instead of the huge wood prop though.





Cheers, goaly

[Rich46yo]

Awesome garage.

[zack1234]

Any motor cycles?

[Zoney]

No garage is complete without a minimum of 2 motorcycles.  1 old, and 1 new.

[shotgunneeley]

10 years ago I remember seeing what I recall to be a blue-nosed FW190 hanging in a window of a local antique shop. Everytime I passed by it I had something pressing and couldn't stop. I finally made a point to go get it and they had sold it.

Still kick myself!

[Randy1]

I think those are K&B 40 engines.  The exhaust was a common add on of the day.  The black carb was a major break through of that era.

[colmbo]

That thing is a beauty.  At $10 a steal of a deal.   Since it'd never fly again, I'd change the props to a something more scale looking (4 bladed painted black) if you have extras of the props it uses you could just cut out the middle and affix 2 together crossways.  At any rate that's quite a find, what kind of engines did it use anyway?

B-24 should be a 3-blade prop.