Re: What would you buy with a 50k budget?

JGalban via AviationKB.com blithered dramatically whilst picking the 
gonad hairs from his teeth once fluffy on the testicles of his retaded 
son :
> RST Engineering wrote:
>> I'm just sort of curious, Mike.  What is there on a 1958 airplane that
is 
>> going to break after 500 hours flying it that isn't going to break on a
2008 
>> airplane after 500 hours flying it.  No handwaving.  Point to parts.
>> 

>   This is a good point.  18 years of owner****p have taught me that
airplanes
> from the 70s/80s have about the same maintenance requirements as planes
from
> the 50s/60s.  Once a plane is more than a decade old with a few thousand
> hours on the clock, maintenance requirements are more affected by how it
has
> been treated, rather than its chronological age.

> John Galban=====>N4BQ (PA28-180)

Much too sweeping of a statement. Age of avionics, any other 
electromechanical device, consider age related metal fatigue/failures, 
quality of rebuilds........the older the greater thechance for misuse.