Re: [MV] Are auction vehicles generallydrivable?

From: Nigel Hay MILWEB \(www.milweb.net\) (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 10:28:57 PDT


I used to often go to Germany with a friend to drive back M35's straight out
of DRMO at Germeshien and Kaiserslauten - we never had a problem and it was
about 370 miles to home - often with the trucks seriously laden as well.
Nige
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Frisch" <jenjas@cox.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Are auction vehicles generallydrivable?

> About 6 months ago I drove an M36 from Ft. Hood, TX to New Orleans, LA
from
> a GL auction. I made sure all fluids were good (including gear oils) and
> began my trip home. We had bought 3 trucks and only 2 would fit on my
> LOWBOY. So I decided to drive it home.
>
> Jason
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Recovry4x4@aol.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Are auction vehicles generallydrivable?
>
>
> > Ronzo once summed up the auction of military vehicles in a way that
kinda
> > sticks with me and makes sense. In a nutshell he said that we are
buying
> a
> > vehicle that it's owner has deemed too expensive to repair or mantain.
> This is all
> > well and good until you stop to think that its owner has a multi
trillion
> > dollar budget, then it all comes to light. If the dude with the trillion
> dollar
> > budget says scrap it, what are we getting?
> >
> > Kenneth Engle
> > Loxahatchee FL
> > 71 A.M. General M35A2
> > 73 A.M. General M275A2
> > 53 Fruehauf XM105E3
> > http://hometown.aol.com/recovry4x4/myhomepage/photo.html
> >
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