future value of classic performance cars,when to bail out, before the crash?
Think of it this way, have any of you ever seen and heard a P51-D mustang, or a F4U Corsair start up and idle, or accelerate down the runway. Both are high performance war machines in their own right. One has a Rolls Royce Merlin liquid cooled V12 with short exhaust stacks so you can see it popping fire, the other uses a twin row 18 cylinder radial engine with coffee can sized pistons. Both are bad ***, and at idle you can feel the thump of the combustion sequences in your chest. The Corsair makes so much propeller torque that rumor is war rated power is not to be used on takeoff.
People flock to air shows to see and hear machines like these, and they are at least 75 years old. For some i presume its nostalgia for a bygone era in aviation, for some like me its because of the smells of unburnt hydrocarbons and oil, the feel of the combustion, and the roar of pure unbridled mechanical horsepower.
People are still flying souped up versions of these 70 plus year old aircraft at the air races in Reno Nevada today. To hear and see a souped up Rolls Royce Merlin in an unlimited Mustang rip past at 500 MPH is pretty awesome.
Theres even a 3/4 scale P51 mustang kit plane out there called a Thunder Mustang that uses a Falconer V12 offshore boat racing engine tweaked for aviation use. basically a big block Chevy setup in an aluminum V12 block, with a propeller reduction gearbox, and 4 blade adjustable pitch prop. This high performance kit plane will run 505 mph straight and level. This shows that people even in the aviation world want this type of stuff too. I doubt though that these types of events would draw the crowds of people if these aricraft were retrofitted with electric powerplants and batteries.
The jet age came about at the end of WW2, but you dont see any of those early jets flying around. Whats left of those are in museums. Its like comparing muscle cars to the sport compacts. Muscle cars are here, and people are still digging them out of back yards and barns and fixing them up. Sport compacts will go the way of the dodo bird as the young crowd starts having disposable income to buy something cooler.
Like it or not the popularity of the FnF movie franchise and Diesel Vin has put muscle cars in their conciousness in a big way. This may be one of the reasons modern muscle is so popular these days. At night i am always hearing the sound of uncorked modern V8s running around. 15 years ago it was nothing but 4 bangers with fart cannons. I guess they got tired of having their asses handed to em. Cant beat em join em. I always said to the import crowd who used to boast to me about making V8 power out of a 4 cylinder that you can slap 2 turbos on a V8 and make a whole lot more power. Heck a buddy of mine just bought a solid but sunburnt original paint 1968 chevelle 2 door hardtop out of a back yard the other day for $2,500
Think of it this way, have any of you ever seen and heard a P51-D mustang, or a F4U Corsair start up and idle, or accelerate down the runway. Both are high performance war machines in their own right. One has a Rolls Royce Merlin liquid cooled V12 with short exhaust stacks so you can see it popping fire, the other uses a twin row 18 cylinder radial engine with coffee can sized pistons. Both are bad ***, and at idle you can feel the thump of the combustion sequences in your chest. The Corsair makes so much propeller torque that rumor is war rated power is not to be used on takeoff.
People flock to air shows to see and hear machines like these, and they are at least 75 years old. For some i presume its nostalgia for a bygone era in aviation, for some like me its because of the smells of unburnt hydrocarbons and oil, the feel of the combustion, and the roar of pure unbridled mechanical horsepower.
People are still flying souped up versions of these 70 plus year old aircraft at the air races in Reno Nevada today. To hear and see a souped up Rolls Royce Merlin in an unlimited Mustang rip past at 500 MPH is pretty awesome.
Theres even a 3/4 scale P51 mustang kit plane out there called a Thunder Mustang that uses a Falconer V12 offshore boat racing engine tweaked for aviation use. basically a big block Chevy setup in an aluminum V12 block, with a propeller reduction gearbox, and 4 blade adjustable pitch prop. This high performance kit plane will run 505 mph straight and level. This shows that people even in the aviation world want this type of stuff too. I doubt though that these types of events would draw the crowds of people if these aricraft were retrofitted with electric powerplants and batteries.
The jet age came about at the end of WW2, but you dont see any of those early jets flying around. Whats left of those are in museums. Its like comparing muscle cars to the sport compacts. Muscle cars are here, and people are still digging them out of back yards and barns and fixing them up. Sport compacts will go the way of the dodo bird as the young crowd starts having disposable income to buy something cooler.
Like it or not the popularity of the FnF movie franchise and Diesel Vin has put muscle cars in their conciousness in a big way. This may be one of the reasons modern muscle is so popular these days. At night i am always hearing the sound of uncorked modern V8s running around. 15 years ago it was nothing but 4 bangers with fart cannons. I guess they got tired of having their asses handed to em. Cant beat em join em. I always said to the import crowd who used to boast to me about making V8 power out of a 4 cylinder that you can slap 2 turbos on a V8 and make a whole lot more power. Heck a buddy of mine just bought a solid but sunburnt original paint 1968 chevelle 2 door hardtop out of a back yard the other day for $2,500
