SuperCub; Morning my friend, I trust you and your fine family are well on what is a bit of a snappy morning out west here.
That's neat that your uncle had one, very cool in fact.
Personally I don't encourage too much self flagellating about things that we modified back in the day, as it was after all "back in the day".
In the same way we threw away factory rally wheels on cars that weren't "classics" but just old cars that nobody besides us kids were buying, rifles which came to us from Century Arms in Montreal or the Army & Navy in Regina got modified to suit our needs.