From: Terry Lane (tlane@mobynet.com)
Date: Sun Jul 06 2003 - 18:28:55 PDT
There is a plate rivited to the dash saying cant be traded or
sold, etc, without permisiion from DNR. Does anyone know how hard it
would
be to get the truck, or has anyone ever done this before? Its a nice
truck,
runs great, a beast to drive (More than the m211). So I though I would
throw
that out, and see if anyone knew about this.
Thanks a lot,
Caleb
Hi Caleb,
Last year I went to an auction at Lancaster Calif. put on my the city
dept of public works. They had all kinds of stuff for auction and the
one that caught my eye of course was an M35-A2C with only 750 original
miles on it.
They had obtained it from YERMO, USMC as a loan/donation 5 years ago and
had used it very little. They wound up taking the flip down sidebords
off the bed
and transplanting the bed onto a 1980 dodge 2 ton truck so they could
use the metal duece bed for asphalt hi-way repair. (transport of hot
asphalt on the metal bed) Sic. Oh well, I saw a plate on the duece that
read property of USMC not to be sold. Must be returned to USMC if donar
is through with the truck. They went ahead and auctioned it off and it
went for $1200. I was just sick. I had bidded up to $1150 but that was
as far as I could go being there and seeing by accident. I only had my
checkbook, no credit card. I asked them how they could legally sell the
truck and the guy in charge said the USMC would never know it was gone
and that he didn't plan to tell them!
So for what it is worth. I guess the tail waggs the dog some times.
Regards---Terry
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