Re: [MV] Importing MV's

From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 13:08:17 PST


But if it was done under the "Lend, Lease Program". Was there an "Option to
Buy" clause in it? If they never took this option, then wouldn't it still
be US property? ;-).

Darrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack" <milveh@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:09 AM
Subject: [MV] Importing MV's

> It was a long standing regulation that if you were
> going to bring A-N-Y american military vehicle back to
> the US, you had to prove it was not part of
> Lend-Lease, which most of the time was akin trying to
> prove there are no UFO's.
>
> They have some funny regs at State which is strictly
> enforced by customs and they can all be traced back to
> WWII and US auto makers who didn't want that stuff
> coming back.
>
> So, even 60 years later you still can't bring a half
> track, a CCKW, or even more modern Mutts without this
> big hassle of PROVING it's not covered by Lend Lease.
>
>
> Oh sure, there are ways of doing it that aren't legal.
> Lets just say it happens from time to time via Canada.
> ; )
>
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