I was in love with this model LONG before (decades before) I got into RC. I still have a well-worn Proctor catalog from the 1980's and I remember looking enviously at the box at a local model shop. But in those days the $250 price tag might as well have been a million.

In many ways, this model (and it's really more the model than the specific aircraft) completely redefined my ideas of what scale modeling was about.