Vulcan Bomber XL391

[CFBC]

Heres hoping we can find a good home to the Vulcan homed at Blackpool.....

Anyone got a good home for it? I would if I had a BIG ENOUGH housey, no seriously!! :)

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2979&item=5530699633&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Anyone care to go in with me? Just need a home!!!! Anyone connected with any air museums?? Be sad to see it dissapear.....

[NeilD]

problem is that apparently its not in the best of 'nick'.. may well need a large dustpan and brush to collect up all the bits if you tried to move it!! :eek:

[CFBC]

Yeah, tend to agree with you which is most sad.... :( How not to look after a Vulcan

[plumstix]

Well, someone's bid for it!!

[CFBC]

Wonder if its a serious bidder? Checkhis feedback and see previously what he's bought.... Hmmmm.

Anyone wanna chip-in? Wonder if Mrs CFBC would wrap it up for Xmas? :confused:

[plumstix]

Showed Mrs. Plumstix. She gives me this strange look and walks away in silence!!

[plumstix]

I hope to get my hands on one soon anyway. A mate of mine knows the chaps that are working on the Vulcan at Southend and says he's asked them for me if they need volunteers. So hopefully one weekend soon I'll be helping them out with it. Apparently they are always after volunteers, especially if they're enthusiasts. I can't wait.

[CFBC]

Plummy....

Come on son.... I need some backers/investors.... Tell her it's an investment for her futures and mini-plummies.... ;)

Easy for me to say while sat on a 56k dial-up hotel network......

[plumstix]

Don't mention mini-Plums' in this house mate. Ain't never gonna happen, good thing too. I ain't sharing my toys with no house-apes!! :D

[CFBC]

Oh well, bang goes that avenue of attack!! I know Stealths well off...... ;)

[NeilD]

Wonder if its a serious bidder? Checkhis feedback and see previously what he's bought.... Hmmmm.

Anyone wanna chip-in? Wonder if Mrs CFBC would wrap it up for Xmas? :confused:


Hmm well he's bought an old porn mag, an airfix catalogue, a stuffed badger and some Star Wars DVD's... are you SURE its not you under another alias CFBC ???!!!! :p

[CFBC]

Neild.... Now, where am I going to hide that magazine from Mrs CFBC hey? Come on? WHERE.........


;)

[ascot]

Why don't we all chip in for a bid :p

[CFBC]

Good thinking Ascot..... Can we use your Evilbay a/c then? ;)

[ForkTailedDevil]

.........and I don't mean a model one

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5530699633&fromMakeTrack=true

[DCRanger]

If only I had a garden!

[charley]

Imagine sneaking that in past the missus!!!!!!! :D

[DCRanger]

Just had another look. Can 16064 people really viewed this item? I've sold one two items but never got that much interest.

I suppose I could get a loft conversion to put it in.

[eismeer]

'arrange for local pickup. No postage'.

No kiddin' :D

[Mr Orange]

Have merged two threads together as one was stated in the Aviation News and one started in Chit-Chat about the same subject..... To keep the Forum looking tidy.....

:)

[mozzer]

Its now showing as 54329 people who have viewed & £14500 !!! Could i get away with towing it down the M6 or whatever behind my renault to get it home ?? I wish...

[CFBC]

(((BANG))) goes my offer.... At 14k I am toast if Mrs CFBC found out :(

[shuttle]

I hope the bidder isn't some evil scrap metal merchant! Who can afford a Vulcan and find somewhere to put it? Maybe it's Jeremy Clarkson* looking for a companion for his Lightning!

:) Shuttle

* For Brad and Bob et al - Minor British TV presenter who is into fast cars and planes etc. He put a Lightning in his drive way to annoy his wife....!

[NeilD]

the saga of this Vulcan is better than Neighbours (!!) be interesting to see what happens when the auction finishes and what the lucky 'winner' does next.. it'll cost a fortune to move the thing, if it could be moved.. theres nothing on it worth having (cockpit stripped apparently).. bizzarre.. :confused:

so CFBC you'll have to be content with visiting Newark and having a look around the cockpit.. oops sorry, wasnt going to mention that again!!! :p

this is quite nice...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2979&item=5531661316&rd=1#ebayphotohosting

[Albert Ross]

Up to £15,600 tonight! I had to laugh - it says 'postage not included'!
..."tomorrow we will be millionaires...."

[NeilD]

oh dear someone has just got back from the pub and bid it up to £1M !! this is going to end in tears!! :D

[CFBC]

Opps.. Hope they realise that Ebay is a legal and binding contract <cough>.... And it's not me.....

Thats a shame as it will not do anyone anygood......

[DCRanger]

Looking at the bidding history I see that not one but two people have placed bids over £1 million.

The seller has no previous history of buying or selling but has 35 other items for sale. The other items are mainly aircraft related but there are others. Any body had a look at WWII instrument panel. Is it really WWI and how can you tell?

[ForkTailedDevil]

Now £5000000. Thats 6 zeros. Those people are just playing "ebay chicken"

[scramble]

Look at payment method. personal cheque or postal order LOL....will a postal order cover that?? :p

[spock1]

:rolleyes: Back to around £20k and falling - Seems more retractions and cancellations than actual bids not to mention a few users struck off - :cool:

[Craig]

Very sorry to say it but this one's as good aas scrap. I'm a huge Vulcan fan so I really hope it isn't so but I can't see much else in store for it. Tragic, but I reckon the nose will be bought and the rest scrapped.

[Agent X20]

.. and at 13k.... this auction pricing practically duplicates that of an AA release...

£30 by tonight.. CFBC there you go... instant castratration but just think of the respect you would get from the forum members..!!

Trust E Bay are cancelling all the accounts of the 'bogus bidders'.... ha..!

[NeilD]

back to £10K now.. so CFBC you may get a 'second chance' purchase offer yet!!!! :D

[CFBC]

Nows me chance guys!!!! :cool:

[The Defiant Man]

It must be a ruddy great big loft conversion you're doing CFBC! :D

[CFBC]

Actually D/F, it is..... MAssive, however I have the problem of the "Delta" shape wings that will just NOT fit in the space........ However, as Neild say's, if it is moved it will be in large BINS, so I don't have a problem then!!!

Wall covering...... :)

[Agent X20]

If its moved.. it will be in bits.. :D I say fly it off.... get there before the 558 boys.... yer win the bid, you presume you would get a full tank of petrol..

[Agent X20]

Funny the things you find on web sites...

Pub Landlord Buys Nuclear Bomber?

DUKINFIELD, England -- A former Royal Air Force (RAF) nuclear bomber put up for auction on the internet was sold for £15,000 (about $30,000) - to a pub landlord in England.


Christopher Ollernshaw made the highest bid on eBay for the 40-ton XL391 Vulcan jet. It was one of seven bombers they flew to Ascension Island during the 1982 Falklands war.


The plane will go on display outside his pub in Dukinfield, Cheshire, reports the Mirror.


Previous owner Brian Bateson, boss of Blackpool Air Center, bought it in 1982 for £6,000 after the RAF decommissioned it.


"The RAF flew it in to the airport then parked out front. But it's not a two-minute job to get it started again - probably a couple of years," he said.

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Sorry Agentx... Removed link due to reasons you did post and warn about, but shows nudity on the same page as the Vulcan story.

Mr Orange

[NeilD]

apparently the bloke was on Radio Lincs this week and was quoted as saying "I didnt realise it was so big" !!!! :eek:

[Agent X20]

Sorry Agentx... Removed link due to reasons you did post and warn about, but shows nudity on the same page as the Vulcan story.

Mr Orange

Have no problems with the removal of link.. however reasoning skewed.. why cant Vulcans and nudity go together..??? They are over 18!!! In fact more like 40..!! :D :D :D

[NeilD]

.. and once the scrapman gets a hold of this one we're gonna see a naked Vulcan anyway!! :(

[minter]

r.. why cant Vulcans and nudity go together..??? :D :D :D

damn!! have i missed something good here??

[The Defiant Man]

Yeah, you had to be quick though....

Was luckily logged on at the time... ;)

[CFBC]

Guys please.... Respect.... :)

I see looking at the Autoroute that the resting place for the Vulcan will be around Manchester? Is that right? Only from the towns/village location.....

[Agent X20]

Why are you using Autoroute.. surely it will fly there...!!! :D :D :D

Or are you following behind hoping to pick up the bits... and build yer own.. :D :D :D

[CFBC]

I was sorta thinking that Agentx... :p