[in response to Karl Townsend about "hobby" airplanes]
> Don't be surprised if the value is way lower than you think it should
> be. People from 'outside' an enthusiast group can get enthralled by the
> prices for some pro-built super-zoot thing and think that it applies to
> everything. It doesn't -- the value of a half-assembled kit is often
> less than the value of a factory new kit; the value of an
> owner-assembled 'knock-around' airplane is going to be much less than
> the same thing that's built to win trophies at shows (assuming they have
> such things).
>
Dunno if this has any applicability here, but one of my coworkers has a souped-up Bucket T roadster that's been appraised at 35K, and my cousin Owen in Lake Crystal, Minnesota still has Grampa's original equipment Model A that you'd have to pay somebody to haul away, wood floorboards and all.
Cheers! Rich