From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Oct 23 2004 - 01:38:07 PDT
Gent
I just bought an replica airsoft M-249 for my HMMWV and it's a beauty. It's
unfortunate that you can't send picture but if someone can create a link for
all to see I'll send you the picture.
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Ramsell" <daram@comcast.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Humvees Auctioned to Civilians
> Hmmmm, and where would this place be? :-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 11:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Humvees Auctioned to Civilians
>
>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Julian Burke" <julian@knology.net>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 4:54 PM
>> Subject: [MV] Humvees Auctioned to Civilians
>>
>>
>>> The gov't doesn't sell them to anyone except other Federal or State
>>> entities. Humvees that are unserviceable or junk are cannibalized
>>> and/or
>>> scrapped by mutilation. That's the story. Julian Burke
>>
>> Mostly. Some have come out through GSA as 'residue' vehicles ranging
>> from
>> "anyone got a set of glow plugs?" to heavily cannibalized frames and
>> bodies.
>> I don't have the whole story from GL but apparently any HMMWV that's
>> remotely salvageable gets shipped to some central place in the 'states
>> and
>> either scrapped or reworked for overseas customers. Even dogfood body
>> remnants that a million monkeys with body hammers couldn't sort out in a
>> lifetime have gone the same route rather than wind up in a local GL sale
>> or
>> the scrapyard, so..go figure.
>>
>> (My favourite 'excess' had to be a series of geared hubs which showed up
>> on
>> the market which had the ball-joint mounts cut off with oxy-acet
>> equipment.
>> Then GL had brand new geared hubs for sale some time after on a sale with
>> no
>> EUC required. Umyeah.)
>>
>>
>>
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