I don't have any horse in this race one way or the other, other than hoping to see 501 running again at some point, but I 'm just going to second the motion that whatever the back stories and raw feelings and frustrations may be, Mr. Smythe will hopefully reconsider his comments about tossing out whatever documentation for 501 he has. Or perhaps he is hoping to stimulate some motivation from specific places by threatening to do so. But in any event, throwing anything related to 501 in the trash does not seem to help 501 or anything else in the big picture.
Again, I don't know all of the details of the back and forth over the years and am nothing more than a casual observer of anything pertaining to 501, but I do know it would be tragic to have any significant original/unduplicated documentation related to 501's condition, work performed, or needed work simply discarded. Surely if that is in fact the nature of material we are talking about, it could at some point prove important to someone involved with 501- even if perhaps no one is actively seeking it right at this moment.
Again, I don't know all of the details of the back and forth over the years and am nothing more than a casual observer of anything pertaining to 501, but I do know it would be tragic to have any significant original/unduplicated documentation related to 501's condition, work performed, or needed work simply discarded. Surely if that is in fact the nature of material we are talking about, it could at some point prove important to someone involved with 501- even if perhaps no one is actively seeking it right at this moment.