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Offline CMC Airboss

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Dago Red goes up for sale
« on: October 10, 2005, 08:05:57 PM »
Air racing legend and Gold Cup trophy winner Dago Red is now up for sale...

http://aafo.com/racing/2005/Dago_Red_4_Sale/

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Offline Nuke33

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Dago Red goes up for sale
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2005, 08:12:26 PM »
Anyone want to give me $1.5mil so I can buy that puppy? Aww c'mon
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Offline Swager

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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2005, 08:40:40 PM »
Hope whoever buys it rebuilds it as stock military.
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Offline VOR

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« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2005, 08:46:17 PM »
I was thinking the same Swager, but it looks like the owner is going to be picky about prospective buyers. He wants it to remain an active racer.
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Offline Golfer

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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2005, 08:57:33 PM »
1.5 mil is a pretty fair price.  If I only had 7 figures burning a hole in my pocket.  Just checked my pockets...some spare change, a $5 and some high quality lint.
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Offline Meatwad

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« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2005, 12:11:44 AM »
Ugly red color. Change it to silver with WW2 markings, and then it will be a beautiful plane
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Re: Dago Red goes up for sale
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2005, 08:49:07 AM »
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Originally posted by CMC Airboss
Air racing legend and Gold Cup trophy winner Dago Red is now up for sale...

http://aafo.com/racing/2005/Dago_Red_4_Sale/

MiG



To me the "travesty" is turning a P-38 or P-51 into a White Lightening or Dago Red to begin with. It's always pissed me off to see these bastardized beasts at air shows. I hope someone tricks this owners  fanny and buys it to restore.
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Offline J_A_B

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« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2005, 09:32:49 AM »
Dago Red is a famous and unique airplane.  It'd be a shame to rebuild it into just another normal-looking P-51 when hundreds of such aircraft already exist.

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Offline Bodhi

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Re: Re: Dago Red goes up for sale
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2005, 10:14:35 AM »
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To me the "travesty" is turning a P-38 or P-51 into a White Lightening or Dago Red to begin with. It's always pissed me off to see these bastardized beasts at air shows. I hope someone tricks this owners  fanny and buys it to restore.


WHite Lightning is being rebuilt now.  Not gonna be as White Lightning either, but bastardised still comes to mind.
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Offline Captain Virgil Hilts

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Re: Re: Re: Dago Red goes up for sale
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2005, 10:23:14 AM »
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WHite Lightning is being rebuilt now.  Not gonna be as White Lightning either, but bastardised still comes to mind.


Interesting. I seem to remember that it started out as an F5 photo recon version of an L, but had the cowls and such from an F model fighter, and it had the turbos removed. At least that's what it looked like last time I saw it about ten years or more ago. So what are they doing this time?
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Offline Nuke33

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« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2005, 12:44:13 PM »
I say keep it a racer.. Afterall, Dago Red holds the world speed record for any piston powered aircraft. I think that makes it just as unique or 'more than' any other P-51 in existance.
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