Thanks to all. Yes it was a SWEET deal. I drove down and previewed it.I don't get to pick it up till the 18th, as he will be on vacation. Celebrating his 25th wedding aniv, good for them. Not many make it that far. No problem for me. It is kinda like having to wait till new years to open your christmas presents though, but I'll get by.Norm is a great guy and turned down an offer of $500 from another guy to yank it from the auction. Besides the garage, with 16' ceiling will be the user space as this thing tops out at 9'6", and it's cold in there now. I don't know what I'll do with the lenses, I'll be using my 300 companon. They are in better shape than he described. I'll check with the local APUGERS here and see if there is any interest, if not I might list them in the classifiedes. If you looked at my earlier post, you would realise that there just wern't no other dogs in this hunt.