Chuck_thehammer wrote:
fj12ryder wrote:
The only collector I can think of that I really admire is Jay Leno. He actually rides his bikes and drives his cars. Too many collectors just collect and don't ride. Seems a shame to have those fantastic bikes and not ride them. Too much like having Rembrandt's and DaVinci's works and storing them in a blacked-out vault so they are safe.
Bikes/cars are meant to be ridden/driven!!
But I could see owning a F4U Corsair and never flying it. LOL Somebody would have to, but not me!!
my favorite war birds.. F4U and P38...
Mine are the P-51 and P-38. I still remember the P-38 firepower demo that they did after the end of WWII just east of Great Falls, MT. They had the center fuselage with stub wings. The demo was a something with the 50's and tracers plus the 20mm cannon. Very noisy! We drove down from Havre to see the demo.