In the 1960s, a friend I have mentioned before on the forum who flew Corsairs and Hellcats in #2, used to go antique airplane hunting. He always wanted someone along to talk to, so on one trip into the boonies, the plane in question was gone. He decided to stop to see an old friend on the way back. The fellow we visited had an Aeronca in his back yard under a carport. My friend Herb asked, " What happened to the one you were building?" "It wasn't any good. I built it out of conduit and the fuselage would bend in turns or rough landings." Herb then asked, seeing no registration number, "Where do you get gas?" The man said from the gas station down the road. He used Amoco premium which was at the time the only lead free fuel for cars. Premium only was lead free which was 93 octane, by the old computation. Herb says, "Do you pick up gas or fly there?" The man says, "I fly there." To prove to airworthyness, we proped him and I was presented with an outstanding display of short field takeoff, low altitude manoeuvers and landing back to the carport, never leaving his own land. On the way home I asked Herb about his friend and was told, "I've known him a long time." End of conversation.