Hey Larry - Another Florida transplant huh? I'm in Clearwater Fl now, originally from Methuen Mass (right on the Merrimac River off Riverside Dr.), and I get a kick out of any C/L stuff I see on the boards from Mass too. I never flew any C/L in Mass except some Cox 1/2A in a field next to my house as a kid.
I never knew C/L was that popular, or about the "big planes", I lived in a vaccuum and saw them as just a really cool "toy". I lucked out in that for a while my mom worked in the Hobby Shop in the Methuen Mall (before they knocked the mall down) and her boss would let her bring home a lot of the returns after Christmas. There was never anything wrong with the 1/2A stuff, I guess the kids just couldn't figure out how to start those 1/2A's, heh heh... I was thrilled to get a PT19!!!
I snapped that thing back together more times than I could count, and then rubber banded it, then packing tape, and my brother finally put it out of it's misery with an M-80 on it's last flight.

EricV