... in judging the Slick as "not a plane for me".

The landing gear was repaired, and the thing was sitting there, able to be flown. So it was flown. On high rates. A tad tail heavy. And wow. It was nice. :D I even did some new maneuvers on it -- walls and parachutes. And did them pretty well, especially considering it was the first time I'd ever flown them!

So the Slick earned it's place in my hangar. I'm keeping it.