Exactly, Glen! Besides, I've seen your picture and if your wife traded you in for 2, 25 year olds, she would be making a big mistake! Remember, Spook is a female. :-)
Spook --- Glen Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If old was bad: > > Beech Staggerwings would not be selling for half a > million dollars > > Tony Bennett would not be performing in Las Vegas! > > My Dad's 57 T-Bird would not be selling for 10 times > the price it sold for new in 57 > > My home, a Brownstone built in 1889 would not be my > retirement nest egg.....thank God! > > Additionally...my 1946 Ercoupe has nearly completed > it's restoration. It may be old but it now has all > digital engine instruments, a computer for engine > functions, a digital tachometer, a color GPS, an > electric artificial horizon that derives it's data > from an internal GPS and accelerometer > http://www.trutrakflightsystems.com/instruments.htm. > I really like all this high tech stuff but my > favorite instrument in the panel is the clock > ....called a CDIA. It is a seven day, wind-up > timepiece made by Waltham in the mid 1940's under > military contract. CDIA stands for Civil Date > Indicator, Aeronautical. CDIA clocks were the > standard of many WWII US Navy aircraft, Including > the Grumman and Eastern Aircraft TBF and TBM Avenger > torpedo bomber, the Consolidated PBY Catalina, > Martin PBM Mariner and other famous aircraft. > Fitting the 3 1/8" large instrument aperture, it is > a sharp clock to give a modern panel that vintage > feel. Produced by the Waltham Watch Company, the > CDIA is a 37size mechanical movement powered by dual > mainsprings. It is a variant of the rugged Waltham > automobile clock produced during the 20's and 30's. > > Lastly, I'm 50 and my wife has not traded me in for > two 25's....yet :) >
