Originally Posted by
Pete Taran
I was merely trying to inquire as to why someone would buy something new costing 4X what an older model would cost
Availability and time. Most of us don't have the MWTCA meets within driving distance. Buying anything used is a bit of a crapshoot. Buying something used over the internet is even more of a crapshoot. People who enjoy the hunting and bagging of rust don't count the time spent doing so as a 'cost', those of us who don't enjoy it, do count the time. So the cost of used goes up. It ain't 1/4 the price anymore. Then there's the time getting the used thing back into usable condition. One could get lucky, and it doesn't take much time. Or it could be that the reason the #45 was in pristine condition is because it was fubar from the factory. In which case the buyer is SOL.
I've bought new planes, and I've bought used. The vast majority of my future plane purchases (of which there really won't be many, I'm pretty well set) will be new. My time is more valuable to me than saving the money, and there's plenty of others out there who get more pleasure out of resurrecting an old plane than I. I'll leave that harvest to them.
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