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I suppose it was inevitable that I, too, would have to chime in. In 1976 we sold our 1942 Packard ambulance which was our joy. Unfortunately, we lacked the cash to garage it, let alone restore it and I could see that it was suffering from sitting outside. So, misty-eyed, we sold it. I realized that to keep it, I would have to "marry" it, and even then I knew that if I was going to be "married" to such an inanimate object, said object had to be an aircraft. Thus all these years later, I gained my second wife this spring, N57992 (1946 415-C). Number One knows she ALWAYS will be Number One, but realizes there is a little bigamy going on. Actually, she (#1, that is) is most wonderful about the whole thing, and insisted I find it shelter (and I suspect may be getting me/it a DG for Christmas) - it now is in a "shade hangar" (has no front door) in Westerly, RI, facing away from the dreaded salt water, 81' field elevation, about 3 miles inland. (It had been tied down at Quonset from May 'till Nov., about a mile or less from Narragansett Bay - maybe 110ยบ arc of exposure, 19' field elevation [think hurricane & corrosion].)
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