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They do actually turn up on ebay quite often.
http://www.spitfirespares.com/
This place sells everything, just has an awkward website.
It's a bit like a market stall, where the more you look, the more you find
http://www.spitfirespares.com/
This place sells everything, just has an awkward website.
It's a bit like a market stall, where the more you look, the more you find
el stovey said:
Ebay is a great place to sell them.
I nearly bought one a few years ago. I planned to convert it into 'a chair for the office'. but somehow my wife discouraged me, she seemed to think it "wouldn't look very nice".
Someone did buy one after returning from the pub, with the clear idea of what their house was missing was a rocket powered chair.I nearly bought one a few years ago. I planned to convert it into 'a chair for the office'. but somehow my wife discouraged me, she seemed to think it "wouldn't look very nice".
It stayed in their garage for ages until the ball and chain told them to eject it.
They posted a similar thread here, i might have even suggested flogging it at the same place.
My Grandad worked for MB for 32 years (I had an IV there when i was 16. They showed me a nice door..
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Anyway, he made the top of it, the box bit. I remember having loads of 'Do Not Pull Handle' stickers that i would stick all over the place.
Even got me a parachute once, enormous fun in the garden on a windy day!
I did have absolutely stacks of original photographs of early testings, shots within the sheet metal workshop of MB etc.... all got thrown away!
)Anyway, he made the top of it, the box bit. I remember having loads of 'Do Not Pull Handle' stickers that i would stick all over the place.
Even got me a parachute once, enormous fun in the garden on a windy day!
I did have absolutely stacks of original photographs of early testings, shots within the sheet metal workshop of MB etc.... all got thrown away!
A couple of grand seems to be the going rate. Take your choice from MIG or Martin Baker. I am So tempted !
!Lefty Two Drams said:
Where's the best place to sell one?
I doubt ebay will be of much use... My FiL has one (from a Canberra IIRC) in great nick but he wants rid.
Any idea what it might be worth?
Maybe I should have put this in the Aston Martin forum - perhaps somebody is planning a DB5 project...
I'd be very wary about manhandling the seat about yourself - even with all of the pyrotechnics removed, these things can have nasty finger-removing guillotine mechanisms which can wait quietly for decades for someone to stick an appendage into. Best let the father-in-law be the one to have his fingers removed - that way, he can't poke you in the eye afterwards.I doubt ebay will be of much use... My FiL has one (from a Canberra IIRC) in great nick but he wants rid.
Any idea what it might be worth?
Maybe I should have put this in the Aston Martin forum - perhaps somebody is planning a DB5 project...
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