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Title: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: Karnak on April 07, 2009, 12:25:56 PM: Rare 2-seat Spitfire up for auction (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/07/international/i063140D46.DTL)

Article seemed unusually detailed for a mass media article dealing with vintage WWII fighters.

Edit:

Fixed link.
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: Shuffler on April 07, 2009, 12:28:54 PM: [an error occurred while processing this directive]
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: AWwrgwy on April 07, 2009, 12:31:01 PM: Fixed Link:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/07/international/i063140D46.DTL (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/07/international/i063140D46.DTL)

I love the "rare, 2-seat" thing.

Like when someone cuts the top off a pick-up truck to make it a "rare convertable truck".

:rofl

wrongway
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: Brooke on April 07, 2009, 12:33:19 PM: We could get everyone in Aces High together and buy it collectively. Like a timeshare! We'd get one in several thousandth of a year in which to fly it each!
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: DamnedRen on April 07, 2009, 12:54:01 PM: I WON THE BID!!!!

After I get checked out I'll prolly fly it home...

j/k :devil

Ren
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: Slate on April 07, 2009, 01:17:36 PM: As a historic artifact it is tainted. It's been altered from the original design by putting another seat in there. If you don't mind that I have a Rembrandt that I fingerpainted some extra color in it for sale. :O
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: DamnedRen on April 07, 2009, 01:44:40 PM: Quote from: Slate on April 07, 2009, 01:17:36 PM
As a historic artifact it is tainted. It's been altered from the original design by putting another seat in there. If you don't mind that I have a Rembrandt that I fingerpainted some extra color in it for sale. :O
Becha won't get 2-3 Mil for it tho :)

Ren
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: bcadoo on April 07, 2009, 02:08:16 PM: Quote from: DamnedRen on April 07, 2009, 01:44:40 PM
Becha won't get 2-3 Mil for it tho :)

Ren

Not to mention it will also cost 347 perks because of the eny
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: 715 on April 07, 2009, 02:26:41 PM: There were historical two seat trainer Spitfires, field modded from single seat versions by both Russia and the RAF. There were lots of historical two seat trainer Spits made after the war.* Is this one a mod of a single seat version? And if it is, if they modded it the same way the historical trainer was made, what's the diff? It's probably just one of the post war two seat trainers.

*"Spitfire. The History.", Morgan and Shacklaldy, ISBN0-946219-48-6, pages 303 and 378.
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: Jag34 on April 07, 2009, 02:32:25 PM: OK, This is a Mk IX, where are the 2 20MM cannons??? This is mod in more ways then the added seat. :O
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: Shuffler on April 07, 2009, 02:36:22 PM: The original cost of the machine is nominal compared to the operational costs. Fuel, upkeep, INSURANCE........
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: morfiend on April 07, 2009, 05:22:12 PM: Quote from: Shuffler on April 07, 2009, 02:36:22 PM
The original cost of the machine is nominal compared to the operational costs. Fuel, upkeep, INSURANCE........

Got that right shuff,last I heard it was about $250,000 for a tuneup...errr engine overhaul
but ya get my point!!
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: Guppy35 on April 07, 2009, 11:22:50 PM: <Smacks everyone for being Spitfire clueless>

Its a Spitfire T9 which was the two seat trainer version of the Spitfire IX. There was a single Spitfire VIII that was modified first to two seat. It still exists and is being restored to flight in England. There are a number of surviving Spitfire T9s, most of which were originally Irish Air Corps birds that were sold on the civillian market later. There are also a couple of Spitfires that have been converted to T9 versions, of which this is one.

The T9 did not carry cannons, just mgs in the outer wings for training.

The IAC, Dutch AF among others had T9s at some point.
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: goober69 on April 08, 2009, 01:24:47 AM: man if i ever win several million in a lottery i know what i want. a replica f4u-1a and a p38L and a spit 8.

i wanna win about 500million and have my own airfeild at my house lol :aok beers are on me guys we could all get fwi's
Title: Re: Spitfire for sale....if you have $2-3 million burning a hole in your pocket
Post by: phatzo on April 08, 2009, 02:03:07 AM: If anyone wants an affordable replica
(http://www.supermarineaircraft.com/Images/IMGP0872.JPG)

http://www.supermarineaircraft.com/