by Jim Kraft » Mon Sep 13, 2010 8:19 am
I agree with you Chiefss to a point. I am not a collector, and all of the old spark engines that I have bought have been to use them. I just happened to buy a couple that had not been run, and way below market value. I have traded some of the ones that I would never use for ones that I do run. They were semi rare engines that collectors like, but I had no use for. I probably could have resold the new ones I had and bought a couple of used ones for running, but sometimes you don't get what they are worth, and sometimes you pay more for ones that need a lot of work. I just took a short cut and ran the ones I got. One was a Marvin Miller Spitfire that was new in the box, but being it was not an original it did not bother me to use it. The other one was a new never run original Spitfire, but no box. If it would have been a rare engine I would not have run it.