Re: [MV] APC on ebay?

From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 20 2004 - 08:06:19 PST


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From: "Douglas Greville" <dgrev@iinet.net.au>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 8:46 PM
Subject: [MV] APC on ebay?

> Did anyone get the details on the story on the APC that was confiscated
> by German authorities and 2 men arrested after they put it up on ebay?
>
> What sort of APC?
>
> Owning armour in Germany is very difficult, but not illegal outright,
> so there must be more to the story?

The Canadian Army sold off their M113C Lynx Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicles
over there (113 with a lower silhouette etc.), so it may well be one of
those. They demilled them by cutting out a 1' square piece of the armour in
a critical area, but the vehicles appeared otherwise intact.



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