Originally Posted by
crusty old aviator
Later, some goomer pitched a big tent at Oshkosh (back before Tom "rebranded" it AirDisney) and put his Stearman under it. The old girl looked like a Tijuana taxi: she had old Stinson lanterns mounted on her N struts and about $30K of gold plating on the struts, etc. Ol' Bob asked the owner, "Is this yours?" and he proudly confirmed it was. Bob looked him in the eye and shouted "You butchered it!" and walked away (the plane was gawdy: a pimp in a shiny suit with his string of trollups would have not seemed out of place beside it).