From: Jack (milveh@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Tue Nov 23 2004 - 13:14:47 PST
Thats just it, the State Dept. considers it US
property and it can't be sold without prior consent.
Like you are really going to get consent from the
State Dept. via a special exemption to go buy Helmut's
WWII CCKW in Hamburg, Ger. destined for Slippery Rock
USA.
--- Darrell Ramsell <daram@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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