Major Tom, you mean you prefer cracked skins, extensive corrosion inside the wings, doors that don't close, windscreens that were great to see through in the 1970's, rigging bruises that make the aircraft fly sideways and one wing down, etc etc etc.
Or a 45 year C172 with new flap tracks, engine, prop, rigging, cables, wheels, paint, plastics at 1/2 the price of a J230. it's all in the detail that the owner of the aircraft chooses to do IMO, you just have to have the love of it.
