Anyone for a brand new crated Spitfire?

[Treetopflyer]

I hope they look better than this 1957 Plymouth that was buried in Tulsa in 1957 and dug out in 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr6aoM8eG0c

 

[Stearmen]

I hope they look better than this 1957 Plymouth that was buried in Tulsa in 1957 and dug out in 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr6aoM8eG0c

Thats kind of what I expect them to look like! With thousands of magnesium rivets it will be bad! Still, with restored Spitfires going for as much as $3 million, any Spitfire is worth money no mater how bad of condition.

 

[Two Types]

I makes me think of a story from around 1991. A journalist in Russia was in the hunt for a warehouse full of Harley Davidson motorcycles that had been sent from the USA to the USSR during WW2. I never saw him again, and have no idea if there was any truth in the story.

 

[esteban68]

I heard it was a cave system full of WW1 vintage Harleys all in crates as new!!!

 

[J.W.]

Now that would almost make a new Indy movie: Indiana Jones and the Cave of Lost Harleys.
(If this ever happens, I want to be credited in the movie and get paid some royalties....)

 

[Otter]

Or "Indiana Jones and the Cave of Rust" :eeek:

Edit to add: Wait a min, isn't that the cave next to the one full of crated un-used lend lease Hurricanes?

 

[J.W.]

No, those are next to the Amber Room.

 

[Otter]

But I thoght that was supposed to be still stuck down a salt mine in Silesia?:eusa_doh:

 

[Zemke Fan]

This is WAY TOO COOL to be true!

 

[Peregrine]

It's all getting a bit handbags, it seems...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/9228910/Its-Spitfires-at-dawn-in-Burma.html

 

[Treetopflyer]

Sad, sad indeed. I have dealt with people like this before.

 

[Peregrine]

I don't know what the truth of the matter is, of course...who said what to whom, and when. And from my point of view, it doesn't really matter so much that they are returned to the UK, just that someone, somewhere gets a few of them back up where they belong.

On an associated note, I was lucky enough to see ten Spitfires flying in formation at the Goodwood Revival last year. Magnificent sight and sound!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/goodwood-revival/8773783/Spitfires-at-the-Goodwood-Revival.html

 

[Story]

It's all getting a bit handbags, it seems...

[video=youtube;5rKYL0tW-Ek]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rKYL0tW-Ek[/video]

 

[loosebolts]

ok, cosmoline...let us pray there was cosmoline and that it has congealed over the spirfires and preserved them. there are vintage R-2800 engines packed in that stuff that look like they are brand new, but those are in sealed not wooden containers. i never thought i would actually hope for cosmoline in my life so much as in this moment. that and there was that rubbery green paint that British used to spray on things headed to south east Asia.

 

[Mr Lilleythorpe]

The more worrying thing was, didn't we ship a batch of gas from Mesopotamia to the White Russians in WWI?

 

[Stearmen]

Well, we are about to find out one way or another! http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/17/spitfire-planes-burma-excavation

 

[Story]

Revealed: the wealthy backer helping the hunt for the buried Spitfires of Burma
Victor Kislyi, who made a fortune from the online game World of Tanks, is funding the search for Second World War Spitfires believed to have been buried in Burma.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/963...e-hunt-for-the-buried-Spitfires-of-Burma.html

 

[Treetopflyer]

Has anyone heard or seen any updates to this event? I have looked but could not find anything more recent than what Story posted.

 

[ButteMT61]

I heard the number has grown significantly. Not sure if that's true or not...

 

[Bluebird Marsha]

I read that they had an agreement on who got to keep what percentage of the planes, but not much more than that.