Very nice to hear about your sale arrangement.
I bet black looks fantastic!
Congratulations!

finally the right color, a real beauty :thumbs:

Well, Sir, you have fine taste in cars...a low wing and a high wing for your garage.
Congrats!!!

ps... if one is a manual and you decide to sell, I’m a Canadian who lost out on an allocation and would consider buying pristine used...

Enjoy the Black Beauties!

Love the silver wheels with the black car.

I wish a full recovery to the individual undergoing surgery.

Since we’ve slightly digressed talking airplanes, you’ll enjoy this story. I interviewed with Eastern Airlines for a pilot job in 1972. I was a high time civilian pilot with all the squares filled for the time ( 3500 hrs, 2000 multi with 600 of that turbine time) ATP, FE written, BA degree, 26 yrs old) with my military obligation covered with 3 1/2 years active enlisted duty in the Air Force ( got an 5 month early out in 1969). So for a civilian I was highly qualified, but fortunately “ Colonel Frank Borman” the ex astronaut was VP of flight ops and dictated they really only interested in military pilot with fighter or 8 engine jet time. Ya know right stuff just like him. The chief pilot told me if it were up to him, he would have hired me if he was still in charge of hiring like he was in 1970, but his hands were tied as the “Colonel” was now in charge. He had obvious disdain for Borman who went around wanting to be addressed by his military title.

Well as luck would have it, the best thing that ever happened to me in my aviation career, was not getting hired by Eastern. A month later I got a job in sales with Procter & Gamble( after an extensive interview process as they were known as the Marine Corp of sales) and 6 months after that was hired as a corporate pilot for Allied Chemical, another major corporation like P&G. Then lo & behold, 6 months after that I got hired by the largest international cargo airline with bi lateral routes to the Pacific flying a stretch DC-8 all around the world. Years later we merged with the largest overnite package delivery airline in the world that is a household name and eventually retired number 100 on a 4600 pilot seniority list.

Of course, since you’re familiar with the airline world, you likely already know where this post is going. The guys who got hired back in 1972 with Eastern when I would have been hired, years later were the first and second officers when I was flying captain on 727, DC-8, Airbus etc. , as Eastern went out of business in 1991 and all those guys had to start over at the bottom of some seniority list if they wanted to keep flying for the airlines. So I like you are not envious of others good fortune, just happy and grateful for things that go my way. Enjoy those ZR1’s, those of us running around in under powered Z06’s, can’t get out of their own way Stingrays, and woefully lesser powered older vettes are cheering you on. Have fun.