Today, that same friend visited, and presented me with a plastic shopping bag containing even more rocket stuff.
He said he found the items in the back of a cabinet he was cleaning out.
Turns out, most of it was stuff that was missing from the original lot:
The Estes Super Shot model rocket (already built), the Estes Twister kit; the instructions, decals and face cards for the Quest Big Rage, Estes Viking, and Estes Quark, a Mosquito kit, and the two piece 1/8 launch rod that was missing from the Porta Pad set.
Receiving this bag of items kind of round-house kicked me out of my Covid19 doldrums, and got me fired up about model rocketry again.
Just might have to drag out those unfinished projects and start building!