It's unfortunate that I didn't take pics of the gear before I bent it back to a "straight out" configuration but these 2 pics do manage to convey a bit of how "swept" it was:
She also sat rather low to the ground, which meant that I was constantly tearing up the tail bottom on take-offs. Finally added a ply tail skid a fair number of years ago. She sits a whole lot higher now, enough that I'll have to change the nose gear - going for the Dubro strut:
All in all, there'll be no more replacing of tail balsa, no more (hopefully) repatching of monokote under the horizontal stabs (lotsa stones), and she'll look more like she did in April 1974.