I hauled home a real WWII Airplane

Nice score! That is gonna be awesome. Hot Wheels made a bomber car that looked really cool it was based off of a B-17 but had really cool lines Im sure thers a pic online of it somewhere.

 

That Stratoliner was owned by Howard Hughes!

 

I would take one home just to see the look on my neighbor's face

 

This is "off the hook", man how sweet!! Keep us posted on progress! ~sololobo~

 

Get Jim Sibley on this, you'll be driving it next week!

 

wow way cool!!

 

Sheer madness !!

Rat

 

This takes the saying "Dare to be Different" to a whole new level!
Good Luck and keep the H.A.M.B. posted!

 

VERY VERY COOOOL I cant wait to see that rolling down the road. I worked on a Dodge motor home years ago I think it was a 70s model it reminded me of an air plane. I bet traffic will get the hell out of your way thinking there is an emergency landing in progress LMAO

 

I thought I'd seen it all , this will be the coolest ride ever! !!!

 

Well if that thing don't attract the women nothing will. LOL. Can't wait to see where this is headed. Any thoughts of turning it into a locomotive, kind of looks like the GM Turbine Train of the Future.

Nice find.

 

Two words: Allison. Bonneville.

If you don't go, you'll never know...

 

Pretty damn cool!

 

I would highly suppest that you contact the Conferate Air group and others regarding parts that they may need for other restorations (you can get big bucks for original parts)

 

Hi there. I love your project.

I'm a fella from Australia with house trucks among one of my automotive interests. (I have an Aluminium bodied 1947 Albion Double decker as one of my "treasures") I always loved seeing aircraft recycled into houses. I remember, as a kid, seeing Catalina flying boats made into great house-boats.

I remember about 20 years ago this house truck made out of a DC3 /C47 came up for sale very cheaply.

I believe it was made shortly after the war, based on a war surplus lend-lease chevy maple leaf truck chassis. I also recall that the story was that the fella who built it was in aircraft maintainance and that the doner aircraft was one that had crashed during the war and left at the airstrip. After much convincing of the right officialdom, he ended up with the fuselage and built his dream truck.

These photos were taken about 10 years ago after the truck was restored.

 

That would make a killer 22 passenger B'vile car.
What ever you do with it ,have fun.

.....................Jack

 

I SEE A VISION!
24.5 Budds, open wheels, sort of a huge wing tank lakester.
I tried getting an Argus fuselage years ago, got the old "valuable scrap aluminum" story. It ended up crushed for nothing.

 

Nothing cooler than WWII birds. Subscribed

 

Yes Sir . That is correct Maybe you can find one of them.

 

I'd love to have one of those to attach to my garage, move my tools into it and make it a machine shop.

 

Learning to rivet to aircraft specifications isn't hard and the correct tools are not expensive.... a selection of bucking bars, a bunch of 3/32 and 1/8 Clecos, Cleco pliers, some #40 and#30 drill bits, and a rivet gun and you are in business. I am assuming you have a drill motor already. If you want to do countersunk rivets you will need a 100 degree countersink as well and perhaps a microstop if you are going to do a lot of countersunk rivets. Try Avery tools, http://www.averytools.com/ to get current prices. The local E.A.A. chapter (Experimental Aircraft Association) can help you learn to rivet and you can probably get some of the members to help you with your project for free. Learning to rivet properly isn't hard. I have taught lots of people to rivet airplanes together. It takes perhaps 30 minutes for a person to learn how to make consistently acceptable rivets. After that it is like welding in that practice makes you better and faster. For your project you will need a person to drive the rivets (rivet gun end) and a person to buck the rivets (back side of the panels/shop head side of the rivets. Girls make excellent riveters (remember "Rosie the Riveter of WWII fame). Good luck with your project.

 

Here's a Plane made into a Hot Dog restraunt.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/33062994

 

Just how many S-10s would it take?

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I believe Roothawg on here was the one that did a tech piece on Riveting. You will find it in the search.

 

wow that is so cool.

 

Here are the engines nacelles on a trailer in front of my house. These are huge!

 

Somebody notify the traditional WWII airplane forum.

 

Here is a peak at some of the WWII crap in my backyard. I live in a tiny house with a tiny yard!

 

gotta have great neighbors busted airplane parts on a trailer with two flat tires kind of parked on the front lawn.

 

wow i wish i was your neighbor. and is its a snow day over here so now im gonna be all cooped up thinking about building airplanes. thanks