From: Jim Winne (jwinne@nettally.com)
Date: Sat Mar 09 2002 - 17:38:59 PST
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>From: "Rick Masters" <rickmas@QNET.COM>
>To: <jwinne@nettally.com>
>Subject: FW: Mil vehicles at auction Bishop CA April 14 Burma Jeep
>Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:37:53 -0800
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>Hi Jim,
>I see you are MVPA member.
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>I ve tried to post this a dozen times but it keeps getting kicked back.
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>Even unformatted text doesn t work. Too busy adding to the auction pages
>to spend much more time.
>
>Please post it if you think folks will be interested.
>
>Thanks, Rick Masters
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick Masters [mailto:rickmas@qnet.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:58 PM
>To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
>Subject: Mil vehicles at auction Bishop CA April 14 Burma Jeep
>
>
>
>Hello Folks,
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>
>
>My first post here. I am fleet manager at the University of California s
>historic White Mountain Research Station in Bishop, California.
>
>We operate the highest research facilities in North America, using a
>variety of 4wd and tracked equipment to reach them year round.
>
>You may be aware that the University of California is a research
>university that manages several national laboratories. At Barcroft we
>conduct year-round high altitude physiology, zoology and climatology
>research, in addition to astrophysics and air quality
>monitoring. Isolation and a low level of vehicle access is necessary for
>these studies to succeed.
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>
>The White Mountain Research Station is actually a set of four facilities
>ranging in altitude from 4000 feet to 14,250. The road to the highest
>facility is controlled by the University from the 11,700 foot level under
>a 50-yearold arrangement with the Forest Service. It is closed to public
>vehicle access, but open to hiking. The road is open to public vehicle
>access to the 12,500 foot level twice each year, during our Annual Open
>House at the Nelo Pace Laboratory and White Mountain Astrophysical and
>Cosmological Complex on Mt. Barcroft on August 4, then again for our
>Annual Hiking Day on September 1. Hiking Day provides the shortest walk
>to a mountain peak above 14,200 feet in North America.
>
>
>
>We use 1964 M38A Marine jeeps with stock limited slip differentials to
>access the Peak in the summer, and we have just purchased a $100,000
>rubber-tracked Tucker 2000 Terra Lite SnoCat to reach this facility once
>snow sets in. This machine is considered the best climbing machine of its
>type in the world.
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>
>
>There is a wealth of information on our activities and the WMRS Historic
>Vehicle and Scientific Artifact Auction at
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>www.wmrs.edu
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>
>
>I am primarily contacting you to inform you of this unusual auction. We
>are conducting our first auction of surplus equipment in the middle of
>April. We have been operating and maintaining the same vehicles for
>decades and are now faced with obsolescence on one hand, along with
>unattainable OSHA and emission requirements, and an opportunity to obtain
>newer vehicles on the other hand. We must liquidate these machines, which
>are like loyal old friends, and apply the sale funds toward newer
>vehicles. The best I can hope for is that they go to people who will
>value them and care for them better than I could. Some of you may be
>extremely interested in a few of them, or know others who might be. We
>are building pages on our web site describing these vehicles as fast as we
>can.
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>Partial Silent Auction Item List
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>
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> 1) 1943 M5 Military Trackson Swing Crane
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> 2) 1942 GTB Military Ford AWD "Burma Jeep"
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> 3) 1968 Military Turbodiesel AWD Tractor Truck
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> 4) 1969 Military Turbodiesel AWD Dump Truck
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> 5) Freuhoff Military XC Flatbed 5th-wheel Trailer
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> 6) Fontaine Heavy Equipment 5th-wheel Trailer
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>Safe wheeling,
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>
>
>Rick Masters
>
>Fleet Manager
>
>University of California White Mountain Research Station
>
>3000 E. Line Street, Bishop, California 93514
>
>(760) 873-4344
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